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In this latest edition of Missouri Lawyers Media’s POWER LIST, we examine the most powerful attorneys in appellate law.

It’s not every day that an attorney appears before the Missouri Supreme Court to argue in the same case more than once, but in an unusual series of events in 2019, Teresa Young had that chance.

Michael Whitehead has seen two of his religious liberty cases go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

During the course of his career, Tom Weaver has obtained significant wins for his clients that also have changed the state’s legal landscape.

In one of the more unusual Missouri Supreme Court cases of recent years, Mike Ward represented a Lee’s Summit surgicenter accused of negligently credentialing a surgeon who allegedly injured a man during a gallbladder-removal surgery.

Erich Vieth has been involved in some of the most significant cases under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, the state’s primary consumer protection law.

Paul Venker is no stranger to obtaining consequential appellate rulings for his clients.

Jonathan Sternberg earned his law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas in 2007 and immediately made a name for himself by taking unusual cases to Missouri’s appellate courts.

Former Court of Appeals Judge Eddie Smith began his career in Andrew County as one of the last elected magistrate judges, just as those positions were converted into associate circuit judgeships in 1979 as part of a constitutional reorganization.

Booker Shaw’s appellate advocacy draws on his long years on the other side of the bench.

Kent Sellers leads Lathrop GPM’s litigation and dispute resolution practice group, where he focuses on a wide array of complex legal issues.