Wichita Bar Association Lifetime Achievement Award given for sustained superior performance
For almost 50 years, Dan Monnat has been fighting in courtrooms for unpopular people, companies, and causes….
For almost 50 years, Dan Monnat has been fighting in courtrooms for unpopular people, companies, and causes….
Take a listen as Dan Monnat joins Wichita Business Journal Editor Kirk Seminoff for the latest edition of the WBJ’s Biz Talk podcast. Enjoy the lively discussion as Dan shares his thoughts on becoming a winning criminal defense attorney, sharing your fears with the jury, and finding the “smoking gun” in the case, as well as his upcoming Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wichita Bar Association. Please note content may only be available to subscribers.
Putting the spotlight on the next generation of local leaders, the Wichita Business Journal highlighted Monnat & Spurrier Associate Attorney Braxton Eck as an up-and-coming leader to watch…
Grace (Xiaogao) Wu-Monnat ’91 garnered lifetime achievement accolades at the 2024 Tiger Claw Elite KungFuMagazine.com competition for her career as an elite martial artist and spirited promoter of wude (martial ethics).
When news spread of the death of Richard Ney – whose career of legal firsts included launching the Sedgwick County Public Defenders’ Office – Dan Monnat noted, “Richard really deserves recognition as a lion of the national criminal defense bar…. The fact that that vital of a person is no longer with us is just sad….”
Dan Monnat, one of the Wichita area’s most noted criminal defense attorneys, has been named a top-10 Super Lawyer for 2019 in Kansas and Missouri by the national ratings service. It’s the second top 10 for Monnat, who has practiced 45 years and lists successful defenses for abortion provider Dr. George Tiller and a man wrongfully accused of being the serial killer known as BTK.
In a rare move, a federal judge has thrown out a defendant’s conviction on drug charges after ruling that the prosecutor had interfered with his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial. Dan Monnat, tells KCUR, “Prosecutors wield tremendous power, but the Bill of Rights …. prevents a prosecutor from denying an accused the witness needed for a fair trial by the prosecutor threatening and intimidating the(m)…,”
WICHITA, Kan. – Who’s Who Legal: Business Crime Defense 2016 has named Dan Monnat, of Monnat & Spurrier, Chartered, one of the world’s leading practitioners in the sectors of Business Crime Defense and Investigations. The publication is a strategic research partner of the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law. Monnat is one of only…
WICHITA, Kan. – Dan Monnat, of Monnat & Spurrier, Chartered, has been named by Chambers USA 2016 as one of Kansas’ top litigators in White-Collar Crime and Government Investigations. The publication, which conducts independent surveys of both lawyers and their clients, writes that Monnat is a “highly regarded criminal defense lawyer with significant trial and appellate…
DODGE CITY, Kan. — Brock Cunningham of Dodge City was acquitted of murder in the 2008 death of his then girlfriend’s three-year-old daughter Natalie Pickle. Defense attorney Dan Monnat believes Cunningham’s testimony convinced the jury he was telling the truth.