• Nov 12, 2024

WICHITA – Criminal defense attorney Dan Monnat, of Monnat & Spurrier, Chartered, has been recognized again on the Top 100 List of Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers for 2024. This is Monnat’s 19th year to be named to this prestigious list of the region’s top attorneys.

Practicing for nearly 50 years, Monnat has built a national reputation for high-stakes criminal defense, white-collar criminal defense, appellate defense and bet-the-company litigation. His cases have garnered major media attention for the defense and acquittal of late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller; the defense of an innocent man wrongly accused of being the notorious BTK; and acquittals and exonerations of clients in shaken baby murder and other murder, sex and white-collar prosecutions.

“The Top 100 Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers are selected from among thousands of attorneys across every practice area of the law,” said Monnat. “I am honored to be included among this tremendously talented group, and particularly proud to stand with those in criminal defense who work tirelessly to ensure the Constitutional rights of those accused.”

A graduate of California State University, Monnat earned a Juris Doctorate from Creighton University School of Law and is a graduate of Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyer’s College.

Monnat is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, the American Bar Foundation, and the Kansas Bar Foundation. He is a Life Member and past Board Member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, as well as a two-term past president of the Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Monnat also currently sits on the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association’s Board of Editors and is the Criminal Law Chair.

A frequent national lecturer with NACDL and a KTLA editorial contributor on criminal defense topics, Monnat is the co-author of “Sentencing, Probation, and Collateral Consequences,” a chapter of the Kansas Bar Association’s Kansas Criminal Law Handbook, 5th edition.

Monnat & Spurrier was founded in 1985 by Monnat and legal scholar Stan Spurrier. Today the firm has four lawyers and has earned a reputation for its work in all sectors of criminal defense, white-collar criminal defense, and criminal appeals.

  • Nov 07, 2024

WICHITA – Best Lawyers®, the oldest purely peer review research and accolades company in the legal profession, today announced it has awarded Monnat & Spurrier, Chartered, with five “Best Law Firms 2025” metropolitan rankings in the sectors of:

  • General Practice Criminal Defense
  • White-Collar Criminal Defense
  • Appellate Practice
  • DUI/DWI Defense
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation

Each year, Best Lawyers evaluates nearly 25,000 firms across America, ranking them in categories including experience, responsiveness and civility. Clients and attorneys in like practice areas are also surveyed, with this included in determining the rankings.

“We are sincerely gratified by the praise bestowed on our firm by clients and fellow members of the bar,” said Dan Monnat. “Protecting the constitutional rights of those accused is one of the greatest callings of the law and we are honored to do such work every single day.”

The Monnat & Spurrier firm, founded by criminal defense attorney Dan Monnat and legal scholar Stan Spurrier, enters its 40th year in 2025. The firm has gained a reputation for its successful defense of such high-profile clients as late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller; the unfortunate innocent person whose home was mistakenly raided by police as being that of serial killer BTK; and most recently, the Western Kansas man wrongly accused of murdering a four-year-old child by cruelly beating or shaking her.

In addition to Monnat and Spurrier, the firm includes associates Eli O’Brien and Braxton Eck.