Jonathan Sternberg focuses his solo practice on appellate litigation at all points of a case, including advising trial attorneys on procedure and strategy as well as briefing and arguing appeals, writs, post-judgment and post-conviction proceedings, and similar matters. Since 2007, he has represented businesses and individuals in dozens of appeals to state and federal appellate courts in a wide array of practice areas. He has successfully pursued commercial, constitutional, insurance, criminal, estate, tax, and family cases, among other subjects. He is admitted to practice before Missouri state courts, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits, all federal district courts in Missouri and Kansas, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jonathan's work has included a variety of high-profile cases with high stakes. In 2009, he turned a client's total loss at trial into a $1,700,000 victory in the Supreme Court of Missouri, setting an important insurance precedent in the process. He set another major insurance precedent in that court in 2010 while restoring his client's $475,000 verdict that a lower court had overturned. He represented a coalition of 150 businesses in a widely-publicized challenge to the validity of local smoking ban ordinances in Missouri, which the world's largest premium cigar manufacturer joined on appeal. Jonathan has argued before the Supreme Court of Missouri six times, an unusual accomplishment for a privately-retained lawyer of his age and time in practice.

Jonathan was the only solo practitioner who Missouri Lawyers Weekly selected as an "Up & Coming Lawyer" in 2009. He was named a "Rising Star" by Missouri & Kansas SuperLawyers in 2011 and 2010, was a member of the Missouri Bar Leadership Academy's 2011 class, and was nominated by the judges of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, for the Missouri Bar's 2010 David J. Dixon Appellate Advocacy Award. Jonathan has received Martindale-Hubbell®'s highest peer review rating, AV® Preeminent™. He presently chairs the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association's Appellate Court Committee.

Jonathan was born in 1981 in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a 2007 graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and a 2003 graduate of the University of Kansas.