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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.
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State: Missouri
Acquired: 2006
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State: Kansas
Acquired: 1988
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DUI and DWI lawyer
Criminal defense lawyer
2025
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2024
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2023
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2022
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2021
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2020
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2019
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2018
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2017
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2016
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2015
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2015
Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell
2014
Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell
2014
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2014
Selected to Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers
2013
Selected to Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers
2013
Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell
2013
President & Executive Director's Award, Johnson County Bar Association
2013
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2012
Selected to Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers
2012
Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell
2012
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2011
Selected to Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers
2011
Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell
2011
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2010
Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell
2010
Selected to Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers
2010
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2009
Selected to Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers
2009
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2009
Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell
2008
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2008
Selected to Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers
2008
Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell
2007
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2007
Selected to Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers
2007
Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell
2006
Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell
2006
Selected to Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers
2006
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2005
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2005
Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell
2005
Selected to Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers
2004
Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell
2003
AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
2003
Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell
2000 - Present
Managing Partner, Gyllenborg & Brown, P.A.
2005 - 2012
Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law
1996 - 2000
Partner, Norton, Hubbard, Ruzicka & Kreamer
1991 - 1996
Attorney, Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas
1989 - 1991
Assistant District Attorney, Johnson County, Ks District Attorney's Office
1986 - 1988
Law Clerk, Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus
1982 - 1985
Paralegal, Shughart Thomson & Kilroy
1980 - 1982
Paralegal, Spencer Fane Britt & Browne
2015 - Present
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar FoundationBoard of Directors - Executive Committee - Legal Advisor
2014 - Present
National Association of Distinguished CounselMember
2012 - Present
Johnson County Bar FoundationBoard of Directors
2012 - Present
Kansas Association of Criminal Defense LawyersMember
2010 - Present
Johnson County Bar Association, Barletter CommitteeEditor of the BarLetter
2010 - Present
American Trial Lawyers AssociationMember
2010 - Present
National Trial Lawyers AssociationMember
2008 - Present
Johnson County Bar Association, Membership CommitteeChairman
2006 - Present
United States Supreme Court BarMember
2004 - Present
American Inns of CourtMaster - Earl E. O'Connor American Inn of Court
1995 - Present
National Association of Criminal Defense LawyersMember
1988 - Present
Kansas Bar AssociationMember
2012 - 2013
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar AssociationChairman, Federal Courts Advocates Section
2012 - 2013
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar AssociationBoard of Directors
2006 - 2007
Johnson County Bar AssociationPresident
1988
J.D.
1979
B.A.
2015
Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions
2013
Ethics in Criminal Defense
2013
Criminal Law Update
2011
Criminal Law Update
2011
Criminal Law Update
2011
English