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SMART: Lean more about our Grant programme
CRS Lead: Black, Pakistani & Bangladeshi Mentoring Scheme
Commercial Awareness Competition 2026: Apply today
Autumn Diversity Events: Apply now
SMART: Lean more about our Grant programme
CRS Lead: Black, Pakistani & Bangladeshi Mentoring Scheme
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Member Opportunities
Coaching
Coaching
Expert coaches with legal backgrounds
Coaching will help you build the skills you need to improve your legal career prospects. All our coaches have legal backgrounds as well as professional coaching qualifications, meaning you’ll get the best, targeted support in meeting your legal career goals.
Grow self-worth and confidence
Learn how to differentiate yourself
Improve self-awareness
Refine goals and establish action points
Legal career coaching
We have a team of former legal professionals, who also have professional coaching credentials, ready to support our members on a one-to-one basis. Our career coaching programme takes a personalised approach to each member achieving their potential, by setting out a clear route to success, including all the steps which need to be taken along the way. With our experts’ support, our members are well-equipped to identify and make the most of all the career opportunities that are available to diverse aspiring solicitors.
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Anita
Coach
Anita’s wealth of coaching experience helps our members uncover the full extent or their own resilience, strengths and potential to succeed as a city solicitor. A former lawyer from a diverse background herself, Anita is both passionate about assisting under-represented groups into the profession, and well-placed to do so. In addition to her work at AS, she is a school governor, and for the past decade has contributed to state school career guidance programmes.
May
Coach
May delivers our coaching programmes, such as AS First, Aspire and Headstart, as well as one-to-one mock interviews. After 10 years working in graduate recruitment and development – at a range of top City law firms including Allen & Overy, Baker McKenzie, and Bristows – May brings with her to AS a long-held interest in widening access to the profession and a strong belief in providing an inclusive working environment in which trainees can flourish.
Upcoming opportunities
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AS First
January to March 2026
Virtual
A coaching programme for high achieving first years to kickstart a career in law.
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Mock Interviews and Assessment Centre Preparation
Ongoing
Virtual
1-2-1 mock interviews for members who have interviews/assessment centres with an AS partner firm.
View Opportunity
How we help our members launch their legal careers
Read their success stories
Jansen’s success story
"As an international student I had no insights and ideas what commercial law was"
Read My Story
Simmons & Simmons
Trainee Solicitor
About Aspiring Solicitors
Aspiring Solicitors is committed to increasing diversity in the legal profession by:
(i) providing free access, opportunity and assistance to students from underrepresented groups;
(ii) educating and informing the next generation of the legal profession about the importance of diversity; and
(iii) promoting and encouraging diversity from within the profession.
Aspiring Solicitors targets undergraduate and postgraduate aspiring solicitors.
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About the role
SMART: Lean more about our Grant programme
CRS Lead: Black, Pakistani & Bangladeshi Mentoring Scheme
Commercial Awareness Competition 2026: Apply today
Autumn Diversity Events: Apply now
SMART: Lean more about our Grant programme
CRS Lead: Black, Pakistani & Bangladeshi Mentoring Scheme
Commercial Awareness Competition 2026: Apply today
Autumn Diversity Events: Apply now
SMART: Lean more about our Grant programme
CRS Lead: Black, Pakistani & Bangladeshi Mentoring Scheme
Home
Member Opportunities
Coaching
Coaching
Expert coaches with legal backgrounds
Coaching will help you build the skills you need to improve your legal career prospects. All our coaches have legal backgrounds as well as professional coaching qualifications, meaning you’ll get the best, targeted support in meeting your legal career goals.
Grow self-worth and confidence
Learn how to differentiate yourself
Improve self-awareness
Refine goals and establish action points
Legal career coaching
We have a team of former legal professionals, who also have professional coaching credentials, ready to support our members on a one-to-one basis. Our career coaching programme takes a personalised approach to each member achieving their potential, by setting out a clear route to success, including all the steps which need to be taken along the way. With our experts’ support, our members are well-equipped to identify and make the most of all the career opportunities that are available to diverse aspiring solicitors.
Read More
Anita
Coach
Anita’s wealth of coaching experience helps our members uncover the full extent or their own resilience, strengths and potential to succeed as a city solicitor. A former lawyer from a diverse background herself, Anita is both passionate about assisting under-represented groups into the profession, and well-placed to do so. In addition to her work at AS, she is a school governor, and for the past decade has contributed to state school career guidance programmes.
May
Coach
May delivers our coaching programmes, such as AS First, Aspire and Headstart, as well as one-to-one mock interviews. After 10 years working in graduate recruitment and development – at a range of top City law firms including Allen & Overy, Baker McKenzie, and Bristows – May brings with her to AS a long-held interest in widening access to the profession and a strong belief in providing an inclusive working environment in which trainees can flourish.
Upcoming opportunities
Apply Now
AS First
January to March 2026
Virtual
A coaching programme for high achieving first years to kickstart a career in law.
View Opportunity
Book now
Mock Interviews and Assessment Centre Preparation
Ongoing
Virtual
1-2-1 mock interviews for members who have interviews/assessment centres with an AS partner firm.
View Opportunity
How we help our members launch their legal careers
Read their success stories
Jansen’s success story
"As an international student I had no insights and ideas what commercial law was"
Read My Story
Simmons & Simmons
Trainee Solicitor
About Aspiring Solicitors
Aspiring Solicitors is committed to increasing diversity in the legal profession by:
(i) providing free access, opportunity and assistance to students from underrepresented groups;
(ii) educating and informing the next generation of the legal profession about the importance of diversity; and
(iii) promoting and encouraging diversity from within the profession.
Aspiring Solicitors targets undergraduate and postgraduate aspiring solicitors.