Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Business & Commercial Disputes

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Jesus A. Osete is an associate attorney in the firm’s Appellate and Supreme Court and Commercial Disputes Practice Groups.

Jesus previously served as General Counsel to the Hon. John R. Ashcroft, secretary of state of Missouri. He also previously served as deputy attorney general for special litigation and deputy solicitor general under the Hon. Eric S. Schmitt, then-attorney general of Missouri. He has presented oral argument in high-profile cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of Missouri, and has litigated several high-profile cases in these courts and other federal and state courts across the country.

Before joining the firm, Jesus clerked for the Hon. Bobby E. Shepherd of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the Hon. Chief Justice Zel M. Fischer of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Jesus received his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where he served as senior executive editor of the Washington University Law Review. Before law school, he worked for the late Senator John McCain in the United States Senate, and received an A.B. in political science and pre-law from the University of Arizona.

Jesus is an active member of (and frequent speaker for) the Federalist Society, where he serves as secretary and steering committee member of the Jefferson City Lawyers Chapter. He also serves as a trustee for the Supreme Court of Missouri Historical Society and served as vice-chair of the Missouri Bar Appellate Practice Committee. In 2018, he was one of approximately forty individuals in the United States selected to attend the Originalism Summer Seminar at the Georgetown University Law Center.  In 2019, he was one of twelve young lawyers in Missouri selected to participate in the Missouri Bar’s Leadership Academy.

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT & HONORS Influential Appellate Advocate, Missouri Lawyers Media, 2023 Alumni, Missouri Bar Leadership Academy, 2019-2020 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Secretary, The Federalist Society, Jefferson City Lawyers Chapter Trustee, Supreme Court of Missouri Historical Society CLERKSHIPS Hon. Bobby E. Shepherd, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Hon. Chief Justice Zel M. Fischer, Supreme Court of Missouri