Episodes

  • This week’s top legal stories with defense attorney Mike Leonard

    This week’s top legal stories with defense attorney Mike Leonard
    Apr 6 2025
    Criminal defense attorney Mike Leonard joins WGN’s Radio’s Karen Conti to discuss this week’s top legal stories, which include the Madigan sentencing, the possibility of a third Trump term, and the civil suit against the gun dealers in the Highland Park shooting case.
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  • What is the role of a mediator?

    What is the role of a mediator?
    Apr 6 2025
    Karen Conti is joined in-studio by attorney/mediator Faustin ‘Frosty’ Pipal to discuss mediation and how it resolves legal disputes. Additionally, Karen’s husband Jerry joins the show and the three perform a ‘mock’ mediation.
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  • What does the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago do?

    What does the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago do?
    Apr 6 2025
    President Kari Steele of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago joins Karen Conti in-studio to highlight what they do relating to the waterways of Chicago, including treating wastewater and managing stormwater.
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  • Can a presidential administration have an effect on employment?

    Can a presidential administration have an effect on employment?
    Mar 9 2025
    Employment Lawyer Patrick Dolan of Conti and Dolan joins Karen Conti to talk about employment law amid the mass federal employee layoffs and the effect new presidential administrations can have on employment.
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  • Judge David Ellis discuss the law and his crime fiction writing

    Judge David Ellis discuss the law and his crime fiction writing
    Mar 9 2025
    David Ellis, a Judge and an Edgar-award-winning author of ten novels of crime fiction, as well as eight books co-authored with James Patterson, joins Karen Conti and Patrick Dolan, Karen’s partner at Conti and Dolan, to talk about his writing style and how he goes about writing crime novels.
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  • A warning on how addictive sports gambling can be

    A warning on how addictive sports gambling can be
    Mar 9 2025
    Lester Munson, lawyer and former Sports Illustrated and ESPN sportswriter, joins Karen Conti and Patrick Dolan, Karen’s partner at Conti and Dolan, to talk about the dangers of sports gambling and how addictive it can be. Then Lester discusses whether or not Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame.
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  • Scott Turow shares his latest book: ‘Presumed Guilty’

    Scott Turow shares his latest book: ‘Presumed Guilty’
    Mar 3 2025
    Scott Turow, New York Times best seller author, joins Karen Conti to talk about his latest book, Presumed Guilty, the latest installment of Rožat “Rusty” Sabich’s story.
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  • How was Jack the Ripper’s identity discovered?

    How was Jack the Ripper’s identity discovered?
    Mar 3 2025
    Russell Edwards, an expert on Jack the Ripper, joins Karen Conti to discuss how the identity of the famed serial killer was discovered. A process that took more than a decade, Edwards got his breakthrough piece of genetic evidence from a shawl.
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