8.45am:  I get into the office and log on. I sort out which emails are urgent. I also review my calendar and my to-do list for the day. My main task today is to draft the documents for a winding up petition.

9.15am:  I receive an email from one of the solicitors in my team, asking me to research the winding up of a company. The client is coming in at midday.

9.20am:  I research the area of law. There are inevitably a couple of searches that lead to dead ends before I find a case that looks promising. It has elements that I'm looking for, and there are links to further cases, which seem to provide an answer.

10.30am:  I've found all of the sources that I intend to use and so begin to draft a note for the solicitor. I attempt to come to a definite answer so that the solicitor can read my note and have at least a provisional answer for the client.

11.00am:  I review my new emails; a couple are from clients asking me to give them a call. 11.10am: I check with my supervisor that I'm ok to call the clients. He confirms that I am, and also tells me of the direction that we intend to take with their respective matters.

11.30am:  I call the first client, who is an insolvency practitioner petitioning for a person's bankruptcy. The next client is a bank and so I call there as well.

12.00pm:  My supervisor wants me to come to a new client meeting this afternoon and so gives me some background. He asks me to find out some information on the company in question, to get a company search and to start drafting an engagement letter.

12.30pm:  I go onto Companies House and ask one of the administrators to get a full company search for me. I then start to dictate the engagement letter. 1pm: I head to a café along the road from the office for lunch.

1.30pm:  The client from 11:30am returns my call and asks for an update. I confirm that a new date for the hearing of the bankruptcy petition has been listed and also that the debtor has verbally offered to settle the debt and is going to put the offer in writing.

2.00pm:  I start to draft a file note for that conversation when the phone rings again. My client has arrived. My supervisor comes in after a couple of minutes and we get down to the crux of the meeting. I make notes and add information when needed.

3.00pm:  I review the engagement letter and make any necessary amendments before giving it to my supervisor.

3.30pm:  An associate asks whether I have time to go to court to file some documents. The court desk closes at 4pm so I have to leave straight away. I get there, file the documents and get four sealed copies back.

4.00pm:  We have to serve the court sealed documents on a number of parties and so I drop into the associate's office. There are four letters to be drafted and there are a number of precedents on the file. I dictate these letters and my secretary brings them through for my review. I am happy with them so I take them to the associate.

5.00pm:  Some new emails from people in the department ask if I have capacity for tomorrow. I let them know.

5.15pm:  I finally get around to the winding up petition. I draft most of the documents and resolve to review them in the morning.

6.15pm:  I plan for tomorrow. I check that there's nothing else that needs to be done first thing. I head home, already thinking about my plans for the evening.