Jonathan Sternberg
Jonathan Sternberg, Attorney PC
Recognized since 2015
Kansas City, Missouri
Practice Areas
Appellate Practice
Jonathan Sternberg is an appellate lawyer based in Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri, representing businesses and individuals in civil and criminal appeals and related matters before state and federal courts nationwide. His practice is focused exclusively on appellate litigation, including briefing and arguing appeals and related actions and advising trial lawyers on procedural and strategic issues at all stages of a case. Since opening his practice upon his admission to the bar in 2007, Jonathan has served as counsel of record in more than 225 reported appellate decisions across a wide array of legal subjects. He has written over 450 appellate briefs and presented more than 200 appellate oral arguments, including 16 before the Supreme Court of Missouri. The total amount in controversy across all his cases exceeds $1 billion. He is admitted to all state and federal courts in Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois, as well as every federal appellate court in the United States. Jonathan has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America for appellate practice every year since 2015, and by Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers every year since 2014, including multiple selections to its "Top 100" and "Top 50 Kansas City" lists, often as the youngest lawyer named. He holds an AV Preeminent peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell (2012-present). Missouri Lawyers Media has included him on its "Power List" for appellate law since 2021 and its statewide "Top 100 Power List" since 2022, making Jonathan by far the youngest of only 14 people currently named to both of Missouri's major top 100 lawyer lists. Earlier in his career, he was the youngest person - and only solo practitioner - recognized as an "Up & Coming Lawyer" by Missouri Lawyers Weekly in 2009, and was named to the Kansas City Business Journal's "Best of the Bar" in 2013-2016.
Contact & Links
- E-mail: contact@sternberg-law.com
- Direct Phone Number: 816-292-7020
- Phone Number: 816-292-7020
- Lawyer Page: https://www.sternberg-law.com/
Location
- 2323 Grand Boulevard, Suite 1100
Kansas City, MO 64108
Languages
- English
- French
Education
- University of Missouri – Kansas City, Juris Doctor, graduated 2007
- University of Kansas, Bachelor of Arts, History, with honors, graduated 2003
Bar Admissions
- Missouri, 2007
- Kansas, 2013
- Illinois, 2019
Affiliations
- Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis - Member
- Supreme Court of Missouri Historical Society - President, 2023; President-Elect, 2022; Board of Trustees, 2016-2024
- Eighth Circuit Bar Association - CLE Committee, 2022
- Kansas Bar Association - Member
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association - Board of Directors, 2016; Section of Civil Litigation (President, 2016; President-Elect, 2015); CLE Advisory Committee, 2015-2016, 2020, 2022; Appellate Practice Committee (Chair, 2011-2014, 2017, 2023-2024; Vice-Chair, 2009-2011, 2020-2022)
- American Bar Association - Member
- The Missouri Bar - Vice-Chair, Civil Practice & Procedure Committee, 2012-2016; Chair, Appellate Practice Subcommittee, 2012-2016
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, 2007
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2007
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, 2008
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 2008
- U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, 2008
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2009
- Supreme Court of the United States, 2010
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 2014
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2014
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2014
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2014
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2014
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2014
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2014
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2014
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2014
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 2014
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2014
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, 2019
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 2019
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, 2019
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, 2019
Jonathan Sternberg, Attorney PC
Headquarters:
Kansas City, Missouri
1 The Best Lawyers in America® award
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
- Appellate Practice
Awards:
- "The Top 100 Power List," Missouri Lawyers Media, 2022-2024
- "The Power List: Appellate Attorneys," Missouri Lawyers Media, 2021-2024
- Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, 2020-present
- "Top 100," Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers, 2016, 2019-2024
- "Top 50 Kansas City Lawyers," Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers, 2016, 2019-2024
- Listed in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers, 2014-2024
- "Best of the Bar," Kansas City Business Journal, 2013-2016
- Listed in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers "Rising Stars," 2010-2013
- Rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell®, 2012-present
- Missouri Bar Leadership Academy, class of 2011
- "Up & Coming Lawyer," Missouri Lawyers Weekly, 2009
Additional Areas of Practice:
- Commercial Litigation
- Criminal Defense: General Practice
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
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