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“I’ve worked with the top lawyers and law firms in the country and have not met a more competent and committed firm than yours.” -Dr. Phil
Tom Grant and his partners represented the family of Shanann Watts after the 2018 Watts murders in Frederick, Colorado. Since then, reporters have quoted Tom on the case. Each item below gives the outlet, the date, a line on the piece and a link to it.
On the Dr. Phil show
In March 2019, Tom and his partners traveled to North Carolina to talk with Dr. Phil about the case and Christopher Watts’ confession, for a two-part special that aired on March 5 and March 11, 2019. In November 2019, the attorneys obtained a judgment of more than $6,000,000 for Shanann’s family in Weld County District Court.
Every case turns on its own facts; a past result does not predict or promise the outcome of any other matter.
After the episode, Dr. Phil sent our team a thank-you letter:
“Hey, Dr. Phil here. Things got rushed yesterday in Pinehurst and I didn’t get a chance to say good bye and properly thank you for the valuable time and insight into this important and tragic story and your help in arranging our interview with the family.
And thank you all for your willingness to come on the air and represent your client family with such professionalism and dignity.
Sandy, Frank, and Franky Jr., are so fortunate to have you four protecting them, especially when they are in such a vulnerable position.
I’ve worked with the top lawyers and law firms in the country and have not met a more competent and committed firm than yours.
I’m certain our paths will cross again soon. I sure hope so. We would love to work with you again anytime.
Hopefully business or pleasure will bring you to LA when we are shooting and we will have the chance to show you the same hospitality you showed to us.
It was fun flying with you too! It’s a good thing we got out when we did! We would have never gotten back in there Saturday night due to ice and sleet.
My best to Karly, and please let her know Sarah is looking forward to having her out to the show soon. Tell her we have a seat saved right next to Robin.
If there is anything else we can do to help this wonderful family please let us know and again thank you all for facilitating our connection with them.
I trust we handled them in keeping with your expectations.
All the best,
Phil McGraw”
The Watts case
- ABC News, 20/20, December 7, 2018: Shanann’s parents speak at length about their daughter and granddaughters, with Tom named among the family’s attorneys.
- CBS Colorado, March 5, 2019: on the Dr. Phil special, Tom describes the attorneys’ meeting with Christopher Watts in prison and what Watts claimed about his remorse.
- KOAA News 5, March 5, 2019: the Colorado Springs NBC station reports Watts’s full account of the murders, with Tom speaking for the family.
- CBS News, March 6, 2019: national coverage of the details of the confession that Tom relayed on the Dr. Phil special.
- Oxygen, March 6, 2019: Tom’s account of the prison interview and of Watts’s claim that he is remorseful.
- Associated Press, March 6, 2019: the wire report, carried by newsrooms across the country, on what Watts told the family’s attorneys about why he killed his wife (NY1’s copy).
- NBC News, November 26, 2019: a judge orders Watts to pay Shanann’s parents $6 million in their wrongful death case; Tom spoke to NBC News for the family.
- CBS Colorado, January 15, 2020: Tom speaks for Shanann’s parents at a news conference about the Lifetime television film made about the murders.
- Netflix, 2020: Shanann’s family, whom Tom and his partners represented, took part in the BAFTA-nominated film American Murder: The Family Next Door, a British production released by Netflix.
- Fox News, March 23, 2026: on the two-part Fox Nation series The Watts Murders: Phases of Deterioration, in which Shanann’s father and Tom describe the years of online abuse the family has faced.
- Crime & Justice with Donna Rotunno, April 2, 2026: Tom is the guest for the episode “Watts Family Murders: Attorney Tom Grant on the 2018 Tragedy”, on the case, the judgment and the family’s efforts since to change the law. Listen on Fox News Radio, Apple Podcasts or YouTube.
Tom’s work on Weld County’s boards, and the local coverage of it, is on its own page: Community Leadership.
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