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Our Appellate Practice

Concentration
Concentration

Jonathan Sternberg and his team focus their practice exclusively on appellate litigation. Their work encompasses every stage of a case, from advising trial counsel on procedure and strategy to briefing and arguing appeals and related actions. They bring broad experience to difficult problems across a wide range of subject areas.

Jonathan is admitted to all state and federal courts in Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois, as well as every federal appellate court nationwide. He frequently appears pro hac vice in other jurisdictions.

In addition to appeals, we also regularly handle related matters, including:

 

  • Assisting trial counsel with motion practice, general research and writing, and issue preservation
     

  • Preparing amicus briefs to voice non-litigants’ perspectives on important matters
     

  • Pursuing extraordinary writs to bring otherwise unappealable issues before appellate courts
     

  • Seeking habeas corpus and other post-conviction relief from criminal convictions and sentences
     

  • Managing post-trial litigation in both civil and criminal cases
     

  • Litigating declaratory actions and other procedures to enforce or challenge a law
     

  • Defending lawyers and judges in disciplinary matters
     

  • Providing expert witness analysis on appellate-related issues and more

Experience
Experience

In more than 17 years of practice, Jonathan Sternberg has served as counsel of record in over 225 reported appellate decisions spanning a wide array of subjects. He has successfully handled commercial, constitutional, criminal, employment, estate, family, insurance, tax, and tort matters, among others. Across all his cases involving monetary disputes, the total amount in controversy exceeds $1 billion.

He has written more than 450 appellate briefs and presented more than 200 appellate oral arguments, including 16 before the Supreme Court of Missouri.

His work has included a variety of high-profile cases with high stakes, including:

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  • Obtaining millions of dollars’ worth of awards on appeal that lower courts had denied
     

  • Upholding millions of dollars’ worth of verdicts challenged on appeal
     

  • Restoring millions of dollars’ worth of verdicts in higher appellate courts after previous adverse appellate rulings
     

  • Securing new trials in both civil and criminal cases
     

  • Achieving outright reversals of felony convictions and sentences

Recognition
Recognition

Jonathan Sternberg has earned numerous professional accolades for his work, including being by far the youngest of just 14 individuals currently selected to both Thomson Reuters’ and Missouri Lawyers Media’s lists of the top 100 attorneys in Missouri:

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Copyright by Jonathan Sternberg, Attorney, P.C., 2009–2025

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