Legal Commentary

In our July issue of Law Technology News, in "Prairie, Flowering," Nicole Hansen details how Thomson Reuters Legal helped restore 10 acres of its 297 at its Eagan, Minn., campus. Hansen, part of TRL's communications team, says the plot, with the help of experts, was plowed, tilled, and weed-treated before it went dormant last winter, to prepare it for planting this spring.

TRL spent about $10,000 -- mostly on wildflower seeds, which were spread by 50 volunteers during a May 27 ceremony -- but expects to recoup the costs because those acres will no longer require maintenance. It will take about four years before the plot matures into a full prairie, with six-foot-tall grasses and the wildflowers, writes Hansen.

TRL's blog, Legal Currents, reports on our story, and also includes links to photos of the seeding party, including the one above featuring TRL's  eep John Shaughnessy tossin' seeds.