Now that's a class action!
A bunch of lawyers paid a call on a West Baltimore school this morning...
No, that's not the opening line for another lawyer joke. These legal beagles dropped by Franklin Square elementary/middle to plant some trees with the kids.
It's part of a campaign launched by members of the American Bar Association who deal with environment, energy and resources issues. They're in town this week for their fall conference, and some of them came in a day early to participate in this demonstration of pro bono planting prowess.
Working with students from Franklin Square and Chesapeake Alternative Academy, the 16 lawyers planted 11 red maples and one river birch and helped weed the school grounds, according to Lynne Van Buskirk of the ABA. Partners on the project included the Parks & People Foundation and the Alliance for Community Trees. It's the opening act in an ambitious effort by the ABA's environmental section to plant one million trees nationwide over the next five years. Their aim is to stress the benefits of trees, particularly in combatting climate change.
Maybe it's also a bit of community service - penance if you will - for all the trees that have been chopped down to print the mountains of briefs generated by the legal profession?
(Photo courtesy of the ABA's Lynne Van Buskirk)
