Katie Stephens – Pupil

Introduction

Katie Stephens began a specialist family law pupillage in October 2024 under the supervision of Carolyn Jones.

Katie joined St Philips as a pupil after completion of the bar course at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy. In the year preceding the bar course, Katie worked as a legal practitioner for a local authority supporting solicitors with care and deprivation of liberty proceedings. Alongside this, she worked as a research assistant for an academic, researching the inherent jurisdiction. Katie has also interned at a family law solicitors working on private children and financial remedy matters; completed pro bono work with Advocate; and interned in the family division of the High Court.

Katie was recently a runner-up in the Young Association of Lawyers for Children Legal Advice Competition which involved providing written advice on a sperm donor case. In April 2024, she won the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn Debate Shield. Katie studied for the bar course with the support of 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, scrapbooking 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 will be accepting instructions from 1^st April 2025.