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Ambitious futures start here – Learn why Foot Anstey could be the right fit to unlock your potential.
At Foot Anstey our aim is to become our clients’ most trusted adviser, enabling them to achieve their ambitions. For both our clients and our trainees, how we achieve this is just as important as what we do, and our trainee programme is designed to help you achieve your ambitions.
Our trainee programme is structured to create an environment which provides you with an opportunity to stand out from the crowd, reach your full potential and become an accomplished business advisor to our clients.
We offer you the chance to work closely with one key client in our award winning ‘Virtual Trainee’ scheme.
Aligned to one client for the duration, you will effectively be a trainee for that client on a virtual basis, gaining first hand experience of clients’ needs and challenges whilst still being able to benefit from all of what Foot Anstey has to offer.
We are able to offer you support through sponsorship, available for both the LPC and GDL. On top of that we provide a bursary for each year of study (currently £5,000 per year).
We know that this can be a huge weight off your shoulders and lets you minimise worry and focus on getting the best start to your legal career.
A training contract at Foot Anstey
Throughout your training contract you will receive first class training and support to ensure you reach your potential.
With an A rating from Legal Cheek for our Training, Quality of Work, Peer Support, and Partner Approachability you can be sure that you will qualify having been part of a great team and gained hands on legal experience with clients in an environment that is friendly and supportive.
As a trainee you will be involved with client work from day one. We want you to put your knowledge to the test in commercial situations in order to learn how to deliver legal solutions to clients.
With over 550 people working across our network of seven locations in the South West and South, we provide exceptional legal services and advice to a portfolio of regional, national and international clients.
We are proud to have been Highly Commended at the Legal Cheek Awards for Best Law Firm for Quality of Work 20
Our Training Contracts consist of six seats of four months. During this time you will work closely with clients across a number of sectors gaining a huge amount of experience in different areas of law.
At all times you will be supported by your supervisor and colleagues all of whom are there to help you to develop your legal and commercial expertise.
We are among the UK’s top 100 law firms, with over 50 partners and over 500 staff and have been named in numerous awards that include the British Legal Awards, and have been recognised in the FT Innovative Lawyers’ report.
Alongside achieving a meaningful career, you will enjoy a huge range of benefits when you join Foot Anstey that have been carefully designed with your wellbeing in mind, including access to our wellbeing and CSR programmes.
Our benefits package includes five weeks annual leave, a recruitment referral scheme, discounted shopping and gym membership, a weekly lifestyle hour, volunteering opportunities and the opportunity to take a paid sabbatical once you’ve been with the firm for 10 years.
Each session will be run virtually from 17:00-18:00 on the date specified. Join to find out more from our current trainees, lawyers and recruitment team about what Foot Anstey is like and how to succeed with your application.
Throughout the application process you’ll see that it’s geared around getting to know you as a person. You won’t find any pre-recorded interview requests or overly long-winded forms and stages. You’ll deal with real people at every stage and find out as much about us as we will about you.
Applications are now open so you can either apply directly for a Training Contract with us or via our Vacation Scheme route. Our Vacation Scheme offers a week of work experience during which you will be aligned to a team, gain invaluable insight into our business, and find out what makes us different from other law firms.
Vacation scheme deadline
Training contract assessment day deadline
You will need to have applied by 11:59pm on 6 April 2022 if you wish to be considered for a place on the Vacation Scheme which will be held the week commencing 27 June 2022 in our Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth and Southampton offices. There will be an assessment day for all Vacation Scheme attendees on Friday 1 July 2021 following which successful candidates will be offered a Training Contract with the firm.
I have been exposed to great work from the outset of my training contract
It never felt like there was a hierarchy and partners were really approachable
The firm has a genuinely supportive culture and every team that I have worked in has taken a keen interest in my development as a junior lawyer
I believe that my experience as a virtual trainee for a client will help me become an advisory lawyer.
Foot Anstey really does deliver on its friendly, approachable and supportive ethos.
I would highly recommend the Virtual Trainee Programme. The experience has allowed me to grow in confidence and tailor legal advice to a client, taking into account their approach to business.
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