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Proceeds from ANT 2012 benefit the Minnesota Justice Foundation (MJF).
Each summer, MJF sponsors and funds law student summer clerkships at legal aid offices and public interest organizations in Minnesota. MJF clerks provide their placement agency (often struggling with limited resources) with intensive help with casework, research and legal writing. Clerks work at the direction and under the supervision of the agencies’ own lawyers, thereby gaining practical experience. Each clerk works a minimum of 400 hours over the summer.
MJF clerkships are open to students enrolled at all of Minnesota’s four law schools.
The money raised by ANT supports MJF’s summer clerkship program. In the summer of 2009, five of the clerkships were funded by ANT proceeds. During the summer of 2009, MJF funded and coordinated 19 summer clerkships throughout the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota, including for the Battered Women’s Legal Advocacy Project, the Innocence Project, the Minnesota AIDS Project, the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, and the White Earth Tribal Court.
Since its beginning in 1983, 597 MJF-funded summer clerks have provided over 238,000 hours of service to the low-income and public sector communities.
