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NEWS AND NOTES FROM THE LAWYERS AT PRATT-THOMAS WALKER.


Welcome to the 'law blog' of Pratt-Thomas Walker. In addition to regular updates and news from our practice areas, partner, Andy Gowder, holds court on 'Grounded' - a special topic area dealing with land use rights and other matters.

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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Welcome to Grounded

“So much has been destroyed/ I have cast my lot with those /who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, / reconstitute the world.”   Adrienne Rich Welcome to the first entry of my new blog, which I have named “Grounded.”  I want to explain the title and what I expect the focus of [...]

Healing or Stealing?

In a college commencement speech delivered earlier this summer, the visionary environmental activist and entrepreneur Paul Hawken outlined for the graduates the rather bleak state of the planet, both from an environmental and a social perspective, and why that, ironically, is presents them with an extraordinary opportunity. He told them: