Monnat & Spurrier, Chartered is proud to announce the addition of associate attorney Ashley Grams, whose rapid rise as a formidable criminal defense advocate has already distinguished her as one of the profession’s most promising young trial lawyers.
“In a minute with Ashley Grams you know she has the heart and intellect of a true criminal defense trial lawyer,” says firm co-founder Dan Monnat. “In another minute you see her outstanding academic credentials, work ethic, and early excellent ‘not guilty’ verdicts already establishing that she is headed for elite courtroom performance.”
Ms. Ashley Grams has seriously pursued fairness and justice for people for a long time. Although Ms. Grams grew up in the friendly, small, rural Georgia community of Waleska, Georgia, after graduating from Cherokee High School in 2019, she headed straight for the University of Georgia where she took only 2 years to be awarded a degree, summa cum laude, majoring in Criminal Justice with a minor in Sociology.
Just a couple of weeks later, Ms. Grams quickly made the move to Lawrence, Kansas, to attend the prominent University of Kansas School of Law. At the University of Kansas, Ms. Grams studied how to help others find fairness and justice in courtrooms by taking numerous courses focusing on criminal law, by excelling as a competitor on one of the University of Kansas’ mock trial teams in only her second year of law school, and for the entirety of her third and final year of law school vigorously defending adults and juveniles in criminal cases in Kansas courtrooms under a student license supervised by the Legal Aid Clinic.
Naturally, after graduation, Ms. Grams was much in demand and quickly able to secure employment with the Salina Regional Public Defender’s office helping people who most needed her courtroom skills. There, for almost 2 years, Ms. Grams continued to hone her already formidable trial skills by defending poor people accused of felonies, particularly property crimes and drug crimes, and bringing in verdicts of “not guilty.”
At Monnat & Spurrier, Chartered, Ms. Grams intends to continue fighting for fairness and justice by defending people accused of crimes in municipal, state, and federal courts.
Celebrating its 40th Anniversary, Monnat & Spurrier was founded by criminal defense attorney Dan Monnat and legal scholar Stan Spurirer. The firm has gained a reputation for its successful defense of such high-profile clients as:
- the acquitted young man wrongfully accused of murdering a four-year-old child by cruelly beating or shaking her—the so-called “Shaken Baby Syndrome”
- the completely acquitted late-term abortion provider, Dr. George Tiller
- the unfortunate innocent person whose home was mistakenly raided by police when he was mistakenly accused of being the notorious BTK serial killer
In addition to Monnat, Spurrier, and Grams, the firm includes trial lawyers Eli O’Brien and Braxton Eck.