9.30am: I arrive at my desk after having walked to the office. Today, our client and the other parties to the transaction are coming to our offices to sign the documentation on a deal I have been working on. The client's team is already in the building having discussions with my colleagues in the corporate department. My supervisor, Ann-Marie, suggests we use the time to visit the signing room and complete one final check of the documents.

10.30am: Everything appears to be in order. The client's teams are brought to the room and I am introduced to their head of legal and the directors who will be signing the documents on the client's behalf. Ann-Marie and lawyers from the corporate team will be guiding the directors through the signing process, so I head back to my office to catch up on emails etc.

11.00am: I pick up the emails that have arrived in the last hour or so. I scan through my task list for the day and pick up a job that Ann-Marie had asked me to assist with - it involves summarising the salient terms of one of the supply agreements being entered into in relation to the current deal. Hopefully, it should act as a useful point of reference for the client in the future. It's also a great opportunity for me to get to grips with one of the commercial agreements that is central to the deal. After my initial review I have a few questions for the associates who drafted the agreement, but after a quick chat with those concerned my first draft of the summary is ready to go. Associates here are particularly approachable and happy to chat about areas in which you need assistance.

1.00pm: I email the first draft of the summary to Ann-Marie for review, and head to lunch. Lunch has been laid on for the clients, so I grab a sandwich and start chatting to some of the directors. My colleagues in corporate let me know that the signing process is likely to take another hour so I head back to my office.

1.45pm: While there is a lull in proceedings, Ann-Marie offers to take me through the salient commercial points of the transaction that's signing today. The deal started long before my rotation to the project development and finance team, so this is a really useful chance to gain an understanding of some of the issues behind the documents I have been helping on recently. It's also an excellent example of how the trainee supervisors at Shearmans help to contextualise your work, something which can have a real impact on how involved you feel in a particular transaction.

3.00pm: I receive news from the signing room that all of the documents have now been signed. Our task (the corporate team trainee solicitor, Sara and I), is to organise these documents into a logical order, scan them into the system and upload them to a data room where they can be accessed by the banks involved in the transaction. It's a labour intensive exercise but Sara, and I agree on a plan of action. Organisational skills are vital to our work here, even at a junior level, and given the volume of documents involved, this excercise is no exception.

5.30pm: I email our contacts at the various banks and their counsel to ask for a distribution list for the documents. I receive everything I need and start to prepare the online data room for the executed documents. I allow those on the distribution list access to the data room.

7.00pm: The data room is running smoothly, so we run through the completion (scheduled to occur in two days) checklist to make sure that nothing has been missed.

7.30pm: With the data room open and the completion checklist checked through, we all head for a quick drink with the clients.