Recent Highlights

13May 2025

Wichita Bar Association Honors Dan Monnat with Lifetime Achievement Award

WICHITA – The Wichita Bar Association has honored criminal defense attorney Dan Monnat with its 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given to a member whose sustained superior performance and accomplishments have brought credit and recognition to the profession. Notably, the recipient must have demonstrated exemplary ethical standards and high personal values….

11Feb 2025

Monnat & Spurrier Chartered has gone national!

The Champion Magazine – The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has published Dan Monnat and Gina Wehby's article on "The Prosecutor's Toxic Objection.”

1Aug 2023

Rock of Ages: This septuagenarian lawyer can beat both his clients’ criminal charges and a drum set

ABA Journal – flagship magazine of the American Bar Association and read by half of the nation’s 1 million lawyers every month – features firm founder Dan Monnat in a behind-the-scenes look at Dan’s lifelong passion for music, the law and his willingness to take risks.

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14Nov 2022

Dan Monnat Listed Among Top 10 of Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers For Fifth Consecutive Year

WICHITA – For the fifth consecutive year, distinguished criminal defense attorney Dan Monnat, of Monnat & Spurrier, Chartered, has been recognized on the Top 10 List of Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers. He has been honored among the overall Top 100 of Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers for 17 years, in recognition of his high-profile criminal defense, white-collar criminal defense, appellate defense and bet-the-company litigation.

4May 2022

Eli O’Brien wins not guilty jury verdict in Domestic Violence Aggravated Assault case

Attorney Eli O’Brien led the successful defense of a former federal employee accused of the domestic violence aggravated assault of his probation officer wife. The defendant was found not guilty after a multi-day jury trial.