In his 21st Consecutive Recognition, Dan Monnat Listed Among Top 100 Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers, Eli O’Brien Earns 5th Recognition in Missouri & Kansas Rising Stars

  • Nov 21, 2025

November 21, 2025 – As the firm celebrates its 40th Anniversary, Monnat & Spurrier, Chartered, attorneys Dan Monnat and Eli O’Brien have been named to the prestigious list of 2025 Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers. Monnat was honored by Super Lawyers for the 21st consecutive year, while O’Brien earned his 5th straight year of recognition…

Wichita Bar Association Honors Dan Monnat with Lifetime Achievement Award

  • May 13, 2025

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….

Monnat & Spurrier Chartered has gone national!

  • Feb 11, 2025
  • The Champion Magazine

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.”

©2025 by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

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

  • Nov 14, 2022

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.

Monnat & Spurrier Wins “Not Guilty On All Counts” jury verdict for Western Kansas man accused of shaken baby murder

  • Aug 24, 2015
  • Monnat & Spurrier

DODGE CITY, Kan. — A jury of 12 Ford County citizens concluded that Brock Cunningham is not guilty of any crime in connection with young Natalie Pickle’s accidental death, said Cunningham’s defense attorneys Dan Monnat and Trevor Riddle. “Their verdict is consistent with what we have said from the beginning: Natalie Pickle died from a tragic, accidental fall; Brock Cunningham is not guilty.”

Sedgwick County Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Detention Deputy

  • Sep 18, 2013
  • The Wichita Eagle
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  • by Tim Potter and Stan Finger

Prosecutors have dismissed charges against a Sedgwick County detention deputy accused of fondling two male inmates. The deputy’s defense attorney, Sal Intagliata said: “James Conklin honorably served his department and his community for almost 20 years… He and his family appreciate the willingness of the District Attorney’s Office to listen and review his case closely and … that office’s decision to dismiss the case. It was the right decision….”

Former Garden Plain Coach Found Not Guilty On Two Counts, Impasse On Third

  • Apr 09, 2013
  • KWCH TV
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  • by Roger Cornish & Michael Schwanke

“The greatest gift that we can give each other as human beings is understanding,” said defense attorney Dan Monnat. “Todd Puetz and his family are very grateful to these courageous jurors….” A Sedgwick County jury found the former high school football coach not guilty on two of the three counts against him….