9.00am: Arrive at the office, make a cup of tea and catch up on emails and post. I am in my final seat and have returned to the Private Client team. Unlike most firms, Farrers has a six-seat rotation which is fantastic as it means you can really get a feel for different areas of the firm. Generally, you return to the team you are qualifying into for your last seat to give you a head start before you qualify. I chose Private Client because of the variety of work, the firm's excellent reputation for Private Client work and because I wanted to work with and for individuals.10.00am: I attend a meeting with my supervisor. The client is in London for the day and wants to review his Will. My supervisor talks him through recent changes in the law relating to Inheritance Tax and we discuss ways of minimising the potential liability, including using paintings to defray tax liability - something our Art and Heritage specialists can help with. Once the meeting ends, I head back to my desk to dictate a note of the meeting for the file.12.30pm: Today is my day to go to Clerkenwell Parochial school where I participate in a volunteer reading scheme which Farrers supports. I read with two girls in Year 4, one of whom is reading The Twits and the other is reading The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. It's a great way to spend an hour and I'm not sure who enjoys it more, me or the girls! I grab some lunch and head back to the office. 2.00pm: My supervisor asks me to draft a letter to beneficiaries who stand to inherit a significant amount under a Will. These letters need to be drafted carefully, not least because it is important to manage beneficiaries' expectations. This probate has been a complex one - the deceased was himself a beneficiary under a Will and before we can finalise the estate, thorough investigations need to be carried out into what he himself inherited. I go through the files to remind myself of the facts and begin drafting. Once I have a first draft I go through it with my supervisor before finalising it and sending it out.

4.00pm: Call HMRC to chase for an IHT receipt for another probate I am working on. Probates at Farrers tend to be very interesting and can throw up some weird and wonderful things, for example a safety deposit box filled with medieval armour which turned out to be pretty valuable or a painting that had passed through generations but was now the subject of a dispute over whether or not it had been looted by the Nazis during World War 2.4.15pm: I begin drafting a Lasting Power of Attorney for one of our clients who, judging by her instructions, is more interested to see that her dog is properly taken care of than making sufficient provision for herself! Along with wealth planning, Wills and probate work, the team does a fair amount of Court of Protection work and was involved with a high-profile case involving the Settled Land Act and entail. It concerned the Court being asked to make a Will on behalf of an elderly Californian recluse who lacked the mental capacity to do so, as well as dealing with his property in England. The case was one of the first dealing with property under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and overturned 25 years of case law on the making of statutory wills.5.30pm: I end the day by 'doing the papers' which involves going through the tabloid newspapers and checking to see if some of our better-known clients are mentioned.6.00pm: Tonight I have plans to meet some friends for dinner in Covent Garden but not before popping into our local bar for a quick drink with some of the others from my department.