Fiona Anthony

Fiona first came to UEA Law School as an undergraduate many years ago. She qualified as a solicitor and initially went into private practice, specialising in Family and Employment Law. She then worked at Norfolk County Council as a Child Protection Solicitor for several years.

After having her first baby, she took a career break and returned to UEA to do a part-time Masters degree in Family Justice Studies. Fiona went back to work at Norfolk County Council but left in 2005 after a second period of maternity leave. She then spent several years teaching law on various courses at City College Norwich, including the Social Work degree course, which she combined with being an independent member of Norfolk's Police Authority, an Independent Person for a local council and a non-executive director of a housing association and of a community interest healthcare company.

Fiona joined nplaw (a shared local authority legal service) in 2015 as a Professional Support Lawyer, where she developed a specialism in the compulsory acquisition of land and development consent orders for large infrastructure projects. She became the Practice and Professional Development Manager at nplaw in 2021. As the Training Principal, Fiona grew the team of trainees from 2 to 12, and introduced a graduate entry apprenticeship scheme as a route to qualification for paralegals within nplaw. 

Fiona sits on the national Law Society's Education and Training Committee. Before leaving nplaw, she was the Training Director of Lawyers in Local Government, a member of the Solicitor Apprenticeships Trailblazer Group and the Barrister Apprenticeship Trailblazer Group and the CILEX employers working group.