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.