Katie Stephens – Pupil

Introduction

Katie Stephens began a specialist family law pupillage in October 2024, supervised by Carolyn Jones and Juliet Allen. Since 1^st April 2025, Katie is accepting instructions in financial remedies, private children, care proceedings, and cohabitee disputes.

Katie previously worked as a legal practitioner on deprivation of liberty and care proceedings from PLO through to final hearings. Whilst at university, she interned at a family law solicitors and completed pro bono work with Advocate where she drafted documents for private children and financial remedy matters. Katie has experience working with vulnerable people, having volunteered with the Oasis Nurture Project supporting with housing, benefits, and free school meal applications, following the completion of trauma-informed advocacy training.

Katie contributes to the Financial Remedies Journal, writing case summaries of recent judgments. She previously worked as a research assistant to Dr Rob George for his book Wards of Court and the Inherent Jurisdiction, published in 2024. In 2024, Katie wrote an article on diversity in judicial appointments which was published in the Lincoln’s Inn Student Law Journal and she was runner-up in the 2024 Young Association of Lawyers for Children Legal Advice Competition, where she advised on contact and parental responsibility in a sperm donor case. That same year, she won the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn Debate Shield. Katie studied the bar course with scholarships from Lincoln’s Inn, the Family Law Bar Association, and the Leonard Sainer Legal Education Foundation.

In her spare time, Katie enjoys dance lessons, crafting, and spending time with her cat! She also volunteers with Bridging the Bar, an organisation that supports students becoming barristers from underrepresented groups at the bar.

Katie accepts instructions in all areas of family law.