LawFuel.com – Legal Newswire Service – Adams and Reese LLP received the Mississippi Urban Forest Council Corporate Award at the Urban Forestry and Green Infrastructure Conference, held May 27-29, at Ridgeland High School in Ridgeland, Miss.
Adams and Reese received the award for its Holiday Season donation to the Mississippi Urban Forest Council. The forest council was one of several organizations in which the firm, through Holiday Cards, made donations in the names of clients and friends to programs and organizations that are helping replenish the millions of trees lost throughout the Gulf Coast region as a result of the hurricane seasons of 2005 and 2008.
Jackson Partner Gee Ogletree was in attendance to accept the award on the firm’s behalf.
Other organizations in which Adams and Reese donated funds to, through its Holiday Cards, included Baton Rouge Green, Trees for Houston, Alabama Coastal Foundation, Parkway Partners, Jefferson Beautification, Inc./Parkway Promenade and Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation.
Adams and Reese LLP is a multidisciplinary, regional law firm with offices in Baton Rouge, LA; Birmingham, AL; Houston, TX; Jackson, MS; Memphis, TN; Mobile, AL; Nashville, TN; New Orleans, LA and Washington, D.C. American Lawyer Magazine recently named Adams and Reese to its distinguished list of the nation’s top 200 firms – “The Am Law 200.” The National Law Journal also lists the firm on the “NLJ 250” of the nation’s largest law firms.
