Scott Christie Gyllenborg

Scott Christie Gyllenborg: Attorney with Gyllenborg & Brown, P.A.
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Biography

SCOTT GYLLENBORG is a criminal defense trial attorney with nearly 30 years of experience trying cases to juries. He is the past president of the 1,700-member Johnson County Bar Association. Scott served two terms as an elected Director of the Association and ten terms as Chairman or Co-Chairman of the Criminal Law Bench/Bar Committee. He is on the Board of Directors of the Johnson County Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the Johnson County Bar Association, and has served as Chairman of the Association’s Herbert W. Walton Annual Bench/Bar Conference. Scott was the 2012 chairman of the Kansas Bar Association Annual Meeting Committee. Scott is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; the American Bar Association and its Criminal Justice and Litigation Sections; the Kansas Bar Association and its Criminal Law Section; The Missouri Bar; and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and its Criminal Law and Federal Court Advocates Committees. He is a Master of the Inn of the Earl E. O’Connor American Inn of Court, and has served as a director of the Inn. Scott is a member of the panel of attorneys qualified by the judges of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas to represent accused persons under the federal Criminal Justice Act. He is a former member of the National Conference of Bar Presidents, and served on its Membership Committee. Scott is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, and the bars of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, and the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. He is a Sustaining Member of both the American Bar Foundation and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, and is a Fellow of both the Kansas Bar Foundation and the Johnson County Bar Foundation. Scott also is a Life Member of The Historical Society of the Tenth Judicial Circuit. In every year beginning in 2005, when the selection was first available, Scott has been selected by his peers to the list of Super Lawyers in a poll conducted by Law and Politics magazine, which asked 23,000 Kansas and Missouri lawyers to nominate the best attorneys they have personally observed in action. Only five percent of all of the lawyers in Kansas and Missouri are named to the list of Super Lawyers. Scott has been selected in two categories: Criminal Defense and DUI/DWI. In 2007, Scott was elected to the Tenth Judicial District Nominating Commission by a vote of the 3,000 members of the Tenth Judicial District of Kansas. The commission nominates to the governor of Kansas candidates for appointment to the Johnson County district court bench. In 1995, during live television coverage of the multiple murder trial of O. J. Simpson, Scott was an on-screen legal analyst for WDAF-TV, the FOX network affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri 1996 to 2001, discussing a wide variety of legal topics. Scott still appears on local television and radio as a legal analyst.

Kansas Bar Foundation; Johnson County Bar Foundation; Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.
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Areas of Practice (42)

  • Criminal Defense
  • Assault and Battery
  • Burglary
  • Capital Offenses
  • Criminal Appeals
  • Criminal Investigation
  • Civil Forfeiture
  • Criminal Conspiracy
  • Criminal Forfeiture
  • Criminal Fraud
  • Criminal Prosecution
  • Death Penalty
  • Drivers License Suspension
  • Driving While Intoxicated
  • DUI/DWI
  • DUI/DWI Felonies
  • Drug Crimes
  • Electronic Surveillance
  • Expungements
  • Extortion
  • Extradition
  • Federal Criminal Law
  • Felonies
  • Forgery
  • Grand Jury Practice
  • Habeas Corpus
  • Homicide
  • Mail Fraud
  • Manslaughter
  • Misdemeanors
  • Murder
  • Parole and Probation
  • Post-Conviction Remedies
  • Search and Seizure
  • Sexual Assault
  • Sex Crimes
  • Theft
  • Traffic Violations
  • Vehicular Homicide
  • Weapons Charges
  • Wire Fraud
  • Wiretapping
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Education & Credentials

University Attended:
The Barstow School; The University of Kansas, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, B.A., English, 1979
Law School Attended:
The University of Kansas, School of Law, J.D., Class President, 1988
Year of First Admission:
1988
Admission:
1988, Kansas; 1988, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas; 1988, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 2005, U.S. Supreme Court; 2006, Missouri; 2006, U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri
Memberships:
Johnson County (Member, 1989—; President-Elect, 2005-06; President, 2006-07; Criminal Law Bench/Bar Committee, Member, 1991—, Co-Chairman, 2000-06, Vice-Chairman, 2009—; The BarLetter, Co-Editor, 2005-10, Editor, 2010—; Membership Committee, Chairman, 2009—), Kansas City Metropolitan (Sustaining Member; Criminal Law Bench Bar Committee; Federal Court Advocates Section, CLE Committee, 2009; Membership Committee, Co-Chairman, 2010—); Kansas (Member, 1988—, Criminal Law Section) and American (Criminal Justice Section: Ethics, Gideon & Professionalism Committee; Litigation Section) Bar Associations; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; National Conference of Bar Presidents (Membership Committee); Earl E. O'Connor American Inn of Court (Master of the Inn).
Birth Information:
Kansas City, Missouri, April 3, 1956
Reported Cases:
State of Kansas v. Maxon, 32 Kan. App. 2d 67, 79 P.3d 202 (2003).
ISLN:
906802319

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Peer Reviews

4.8/5.0 (14 reviews)
Martindale-Hubbell® AV Preeminent Rating Badge

  • Legal Knowledge

    4.7/5.0

  • Analytical Capability

    4.8/5.0

  • Judgment

    4.7/5.0

  • Communication

    4.8/5.0

  • Legal Experience

    4.9/5.0

  • 5.0/5.0 Rated by a Partner on 07/02/14 in Commercial Litigation

    I have known Scott for more than 20 years. When I need to refer a difficult criminal case, I always send the client to Scott. He is a top flight lawyer.

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  • 5.0/5.0 Rated by a Managing Partner on 07/22/14 in Criminal Defense

    Scott is an accomplished criminal defense attorney, in both state and federal courts

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  • 5.0/5.0 Rated by a Principal on 07/14/14 in Corporate Contracts

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  • 5.0/5.0 Rated by a Partner on 07/02/14 in Criminal Law

    See the comments I submitted re commercial litigation. That is my area of practice. I intended to rate Scott for criminal law.

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  • 5.0/5.0 Rated by a Partner on 07/01/14 in Corporate Planning

    Scott provides excellent amd timely legal services to his clients

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  • 5.0/5.0 Rated by a Partner on 06/23/14 in Criminal Defense

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  • 5.0/5.0 Rated by a Partner on 06/23/14 in Criminal Defense

    Excellent lawyer

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  • 5.0/5.0 Rated by a Senior Associate on 06/23/14 in Criminal Law

    One of the top Criminal Law attorneys in the area

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  • 5.0/5.0 Rated by a Managing Partner on 06/23/14 in Criminal Defense

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  • 5.0/5.0 Rated by a Principal on 06/23/14 in Criminal Defense

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Scott Gyllenborg is an outstanding attorney. He has an in-depth knowledge of the law and an exceptional ability to access the facts of an issue and design meticulous, fair and comprehensive representa...

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