Daniel Monnat, Fellow, was announced as the Wichita Bar Association’s 2025 Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. He was presented with the award at the WBA’s Law Day & Awards Luncheon on May 13th.
The award is given to a member whose sustained superior performance and accomplishments have brought credit and recognition to the profession. Also noted in consideration is that the recipient must have demonstrated exemplary ethical standards and high personal values.
Monnat co-founded Monnat & Spurrier in 1985, where has has specialized in high-stakes criminal defense, such as the acquittal of an internationally recognized late-term abortion provider or the successful defense of an innocent man wrongfully accused of being the notorious serial-killer BTK. Earlier this year, he also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, of which he was formerly a President.
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