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MJF News As the school year wraps up, the Minnesota Justice Foundation is proud to reflect upon the accomplishments of this year’s corps of Street Law volunteers. Between Fall 2007 and Spring 2008, over 60 Street Law volunteers went into 30 Twin Cities classrooms to deliver over 250 hours of preventative law lessons. Our volunteers covered topics that touched on family, criminal, immigration, housing, employment and consumer law.
As part of MJF’s commitment to Pipeline Diversity and its goal of increasing minority student enrollment in law school, Street Law volunteers organized field trips to Minnesota’s law schools that resulted in nearly 200 of the high school students Street Law serves getting the chance to learn about college, law school, the admission process and career possibilities.
MJF heartily thanks its Street Law volunteers for a great year’s worth of legal outreach and looks forward to its 2008-09 school year!
Connecting Law Students to the Community "One of the proudest moments in the history of the Minnesota legal community is when law students rose up to defend legal services during the funding cut backs of the 1980's and formed the Minnesota Justice Foundation.These students cared about the provision of legal services to the poor." Honorable Rosalie Wahl, former Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, 1993 Since 1982 the Minnesota Justice Foundation (MJF) has been meeting the legal needs of low-income and disadvantaged Minnesotans through programs that pair volunteer law students with legal services agencies. MJF draws participation from the four law schools in the Twin Cities: Hamline University School of Law, the University of Minnesota Law School, the University of St. Thomas School of Law, and William Mitchell College of Law. In volunteering, students find practical application for their new skills, meaningful legal experience, and an appreciation for the need and impact of pro bono work. This site is meant to provide law students, law schools, public interest agencies, and law firms with the networking resources necessary for coordinating pro bono legal services within the community. MJF is a not-for-profit organization. Donate now to support equal justice for all. Donations are tax deductible. Please note: MJF does not provide direct legal assistance. If you are in need of legal assistance, you may find referral information at the following websites: Minnesota State Bar Association, Minnesota Legal Services Coalition, LawHelpMN.org, and Volunteer Lawyers Network. 
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