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Causes: Crime & Law, Legal Services, Philanthropy, Public Interest Law, Voluntarism Promotion
Mission: Striving for justice by creating opportunities for law students to perform public interest and pro bono legal services.
Programs: The minnesota justice foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of law students and attorneys that educates and encourages its members and the legal community in their professional obligation to apply their skills and knowledge on behalf of the low-income, disadvantaged and unrepresented. Minnesota justice foundation links committed law students with attorneys to provide quality pro bono legal services, to encourage public service, to help shape public policy, and to promote social justice. Summer clerkship program: placed 16 law students at legal services organizations around the state of mn in the summer of 2017. Law school public service program: filled 1,233 volunteer placements providing 22,000 hours of service to 8,000+ low income clients.