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Training Contract

Foot Anstey usually recruits around 12 trainees every year, and each one completes six seats lasting four months each. This variety allows trainees to learn more about different practice areas, thus helping them to discover what they would like to specialise in after they qualify.

Trainees work directly with clients, completing tasks like drafting contracts and reviewing existing documents. Trainees also receive regular feedback from senior lawyers. There is even a mentoring scheme at the firm, in which trainees receive support and advice from a partner.

Client secondments are common at the firm, with trainees getting the chance to provide legal and business support to a wide range of clients. When trainees return, they find that they can advise clients better, as they gain a better understanding of the challenges faced by clients.

Aside from legal work, trainees have plenty of opportunities to relax and unwind. Recent initiatives include a weekly wellbeing hour where trainees can do whatever they want for an hour, as well as regular socials.

Our Vacation Schemes

On Foot Anstey's vacation schemes, successful applicants will experience what it is like to be a Trainee Solicitor at the firm. Successful applicants will spend a week with the firm in April where they will contribute to real cases. At the end of the week, they will use the knowledge they have learnt during the week in their assessment centre.

Achieve Vacation scheme

Achieve is specifically designed for individuals from underrepresented groups within the UK workforce as identified by the UK government. This includes individuals from Bangladeshi, Black, Pakistani and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. In addition to spending a week with the firm on the Vacation Scheme, successful applicants will also take part in a series of masterclass sessions. These sessions will help our cohort to develop legal skills and commercial understanding.

Aspire Vacation Scheme

Open to external applicants who want to experience life at Foot Anstey and apply for a training contract with the firm from 2025 or 2026.

Assessment centres

During Foot Anstey's assessment centres, applicants get the opportunity to speak to various people from around the firm including trainees and Partners to learn more about life at Foot Anstey. They will also take part in four exercises which include a Partner interview, written exercise, group exercise and commercial exercise. A number of these are examples of work that trainees have undertaken during their time at the firm. The score of all of these aspects are taken into consideration when deciding on the outcome.