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Karen Conti

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Karen Conti is one of Chicago’s most prominent lawyers and legal analysts. She is a dynamic speaker, writer, and media personality with over 30 years of experience in national and local radio and television.

Karen has produced and hosted award-winning radio shows, entertaining, edifying and empowering people for almost three decades. Her dynamic talk show, “Legally Speaking” won several Achievement in Radio awards, including Best Public Affairs Show and Best Afternoon Drive Time. Karen has the unique skill to simplify complex legal issues as well as make them engaging, while being unbiased and factual.

She is currently the host of “The Karen Conti Show” on Chicago’s 50,000-watt station, WGN, where she comments on current events, social issu Karen Conti is one of Chicago’s most prominent lawyers and legal analysts. She is a dynamic speaker, writer, and media personality with over 30 years of experience in national and local radio and television.

Karen has produced and hosted award-winning radio shows, entertaining, edifying and empowering people for almost three decades. Her dynamic talk show, “Legally Speaking” won several Achievement in Radio awards, including Best Public Affairs Show and Best Afternoon Drive Time. Karen has the unique skill to simplify complex legal issues as well as make them engaging, while being unbiased and factual.

She is currently the host of “The Karen Conti Show” on Chicago’s 50,000-watt station, WGN, where she comments on current events, social issues as well as the law. For over twenty-five years, she has served as the designated legal analyst on the local Fox affiliate where she not only appears on-air to give legal commentary, but pitches show topics and writes the interview text. She has appeared regularly on national media programs such as MSNBC, CNN News, Fox News, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Nancy Grace, The O’Reilly Factor, Court TV, the Montel Williams Show, and the Leeza Gibbons Show. Topics range from high-profile criminal cases, police brutality, the death penalty, family law, business issues, consumer lawsuits, and Supreme Court happenings. She writes and lectures on many issues including the death penalty, women in business, law and the media. She is frequently published in the Chicagoland newspapers, and for seven years has written a column “This Day in Legal History” for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, which is circulated throughout the State of Illinois.

As an aggressive and driven litigator and trial lawyer for 36 years, Karen has handled numerous high-profile and noteworthy cases across the country including a U.S. Supreme Court appeal and several well-known Chicago-area criminal cases including the death row appeals for serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Her experience spans almost all areas of law including criminal, appellate, family law, and business litigation. She is licensed to practice law in Illinois and California. She is a certified mediator and collaborative lawyer.

Karen has a rich academic background lending further credibility to her reputation. She has served as a law professor for over 25 years at DePaul University and University of Illinois law schools.

Karen has won numerous recognitions such as One of the 100 Women Making a Difference in Chicago and Leading Lawyer, selected as one of the top lawyers in the nation. Besides producing and writing radio and television show segments, Karen’s creative talents include writing humorous speeches and musical parodies for political figures and other media personalities. She is an avid athlete, having run marathons, taking 2nd place in a state bodybuilding competition, and winning the “Most Fit Lawyer” competition in Chicago. She is a world traveler, voracious reader, and news junky. ...more

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“all living things have a genetically-embedded force driving them to deny death no matter their knowledge of this fait accompli.”
― Karen Conti, Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America's Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row

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“Even if the Groundhog promises a quick spring, Chicagoans know the rodent lies.”
― Karen Conti, Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America's Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row

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“One morning, there were two gallons of what appeared to be ketchup on my front stairs. It was either a symbol signifying the spillage of blood by some antagonist or a Heinz delivery gone awry.”
― Karen Conti, Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America's Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row

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