Throughout Sean Wieber's life, the importance of team has been evident — whether as a third-year associate at Winston & Strawn or as a football player at Northwestern University.

If you are an associate at a large firm reading this article, chances are that you have not been involved in a trial and your prospects of being involved in one are slim.

Last summer the world saw the poignant images of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee being reunited with their families after spending 140 days of a 12-year sentence in a North Korean jail.

One of the longest-running pick-up basketball games in Chicago takes place three days a week, at noon, in the West Loop Athletic Club, a tony Randolph Street gym.

When I was a freshman in law school, there were so few women enrolled that each of us deserved special mention.

They didn't give this as the "official" reason Chicago got aced out of the Olympics, but I am pretty sure that it is because they canceled the South Side Irish Parade. This 30-year tradition that brought North and South sides together as one is done. Okay, so of the few hundred thousand people who show up, a few get a little tipsy. And some of these tipsy ones behave badly, loudly and obnoxiously.

May it please the court … Sir Noel Coward was one of the most prolific and successful writers of the 20th century. Author of dozens of prize-winning plays, musical revues and popular songs, he had an equally distinguished career as a stage and film director and actor.