{"id":1534,"date":"2013-12-04T20:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2013-12-04T20:13:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:13:25","slug":"abc-7-retains-legal-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/12\/04\/abc-7-retains-legal-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC 7 retains legal counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Gil Soffer<\/p><\/div>\n

Alert the media: Chicago's top television news outfit has lawyered up.<\/p>\n

Former federal prosecutor Gil Soffer was hired Wednesday as legal analyst for ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, where he\u2019ll contribute to newscasts \u201cwhenever important legal stories develop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soffer is the managing partner of Katten, Muchin and Rosenman\u2019s Chicago office and national co-head of its white collar defense practice. Before joining the firm in 2000, he was an assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago for six years. He stepped away from the firm for one year in 2008 to serve as associate deputy attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cGil offers tremendous input and clarity on criminal law cases with his years of experience as both a defense attorney and federal prosecutor,\u201d Jennifer Graves, vice president and news director at ABC 7, said in a statement. \u201cHe is smart, articulate, quick-witted and does an impressive job simplifying complex cases for our viewers. We\u2019re thrilled to have him as part of our team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32 has the only full-time legal analyst on staff in Larry Yellen,<\/a> a lawyer who\u2019s also an investigative reporter and weekend news anchor. On a free-lance basis, CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 uses criminal lawyer Irv Miller, and Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9 uses former assistant state\u2019s attorney Terry Sullivan.<\/a><\/p>\n

NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 does not have a paid legal analyst, according to station manager and vice president of news Frank Whittaker, \u201cthough we have several excellent lawyers who we use for analysis when appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alert the media: Chicago's top television news outfit has lawyered up. Former federal prosecutor Gil Soffer was hired Wednesday as legal analyst for ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, where he\u2019ll contribute to newscasts \u201cwhenever important legal stories develop.\u201d Soffer is the managing partner of Katten, Muchin and Rosenman\u2019s Chicago office and national co-head of its white collar... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}