Victoria Pynchon, Contributor
With a slew of high profile divorces continuing to make headlines, one of the first questions people ask is whether the couple had a pre-nuptial agreement.

Celebrities who are making millions of dollars tend to make sure they have a pre-nup in place before tying the knot as a way to secure their assets.
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Appeals court finds trial judge improperly instructed a juror outside the presence of Joseph Collins' lawyers
January 10, 2012|Bloomberg News

The fraud conviction of Chicago lawyer Joseph Collins, Refco Inc.'s former outside counsel, was reversed by a federal appeals court that found the trial judge improperly instructed a juror outside the presence of Collins' attorneys.

Among the complaints against the for-profit school are poor job-placement rates, high-pressure sales tactics, low graduation rates, excessive profit margins and the burdening of students with crushing debt
January 18, 2012|By Gregory Karp, Chicago Tribune reporter

Updated: January 15, 2012 2:31AM
BY LEEANN SHELTON Staff Reporter lshelton@suntimes.com January 14, 2012 10:12PM

Shawalie Khan doesn’t know when — or if — he’ll ever go home again.

He is one of the 171 men still detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, out of the 779 prisoners who have been held at the U.S. military prison over the last decade.