http://www.chicagolawyermagazine.com Chicago Lawyer Magazine - a magazine for professionals Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:49:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.chicagolawyermagazine.com/2010/03/09/09-03-10114515/ http://www.chicagolawyermagazine.com/2010/03/04/04-03-10155954/ By Julian Frazin Michael Best & Friedrich • Entertainment Critic 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 ... http://www.chicagolawyermagazine.com/2010/03/03/opening-statement-coward-revival-good-not-great/ By Michael Philippi Ungaretti & Harris • Restaurant Critic 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 ... http://www.chicagolawyermagazine.com/2010/03/03/counsels-table-come-south-my-friends/ By Kwabena Appenteng Greene and Letts 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. The severity of the journalists' sentence connoted a crime much more heinous ... http://www.chicagolawyermagazine.com/2010/03/03/an-international-perspective-the-politics-of-justice/ By Olivia Clarke 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. "I started playing recreational sports probably from the moment I could walk," said Wieber, who grew up in Sandusky, Ohio. ... http://www.chicagolawyermagazine.com/2010/03/03/the-road-to-becoming-an-associate/ By Ted McClelland 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. You won't see the best players in town there, but you will see some of the biggest names. Chicago Public Schools ... http://www.chicagolawyermagazine.com/2010/03/02/basketball-lawyers-play-the-game/ By Shermin Kruse Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschbaum & Nagelberg 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. Most likely you have not even seen a real commercial trial. At the ... http://www.chicagolawyermagazine.com/2010/03/02/climbing-the-ladder-to-try-or-not-to-try/ By Nina S. Appel Loyola University Chicago School of Law When I was a freshman in law school, there were so few women enrolled that each of us deserved special mention. We were continually subjected to the question, in one form or another, "What are you doing here, taking up a place which ... http://www.chicagolawyermagazine.com/2010/03/02/closing-argument-dont-lose-ground/ http://www.chicagolawyermagazine.com/2010/02/23/23-02-10105259/