Steve Sanders Selected for Missouri Lawyers Media 2025 ICON Award

Baker Sterchi attorney Steve Sanders has been selected by Missouri Lawyers Media to receive the 2025 ICON Award, joining other distinguished individuals aged 60 or older who have demonstrated exemplary legal careers, long-standing commitments to the Missouri legal community, and success beyond the practice of law. The honorees include founding partners, firm leaders and former public officials.

Sanders has built an extensive trial career, having tried more than 60 cases to verdict in state and federal courts across the country. A founder of the St. Louis office of his prior firm, he also served as regional trial counsel for a Fortune 100 manufacturer, handling cases throughout the Midwest, and as national coordinating and trial counsel for a Fortune 100 company in complex product liability litigation. In addition to his trial work, Sanders has served as a certified mediator in matters ranging from personal injury and product liability to commercial litigation, with significant experience in business and product liability litigation.

For more than 35 years, Sanders has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for his work in commercial litigation, personal injury litigation and product liability litigation. He has previously been named “Lawyer of the Year” for Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants and for Product Liability Litigation - Defendants in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Sanders has also been selected for inclusion in Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers in the areas of personal injury defense, product liability defense and commercial litigation for more than a decade.