Around this time last year, Sarah Hollender, a class of 2012 Pace Law School graduate, was weighing three job offers: one with a small firm, one with a corporation and one from the Pace Community Law Practice, a new nonprofit law firm run by the school.

Believing Pace would offer her the most practical legal experience, Hollender became one of four fellows in a one-year "legal residency" program for newly minted J.D.s that is modeled after residencies for medical students.

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The staff of the Pace Community Law Practice: clockwise, from left, fellows Sara Morton, Shari Hochberg and Craig Relles, supervising attorney Karin Anderson Ponzer, executive director Jennifer Friedman, fellow Sarah Hollender, and program administrator Nova Lucero.