9.15am: I arrive at the office, check my emails and respond to emails that have come in from our Piraeus office who have been assisting with the translation of a claim form that we intend to serve in Greece.

9.30am: I talk to my supervisor (a partner in the international litigation and arbitration department) about the various matters that we are working on. A borrower has defaulted under the terms of a loan agreement granted by our client bank. We are going to arrest the borrower's vessel as security under the mortgage.

10.30am: Having decided the course of action we are going to take, I speak to one of the assistants in the department who had arrested a vessel in the same port recently who talks me through the documents that I would need to draft. People are really friendly here; they are always willing to help and their doors are always open.

11.30am: Drafting the documents proves to be straightforward following the advice I have been given, even though this is the first time that I have arrested a vessel.

12.45pm: I listen in on a conference call my supervisor has with the admiralty marshal at the Royal Courts of Justice, to forewarn them that we intend to file an application for arrest.

1.00pm: I meet a friend for lunch who is working at a bank near our office. The office is so central that many of my friends from law school and university are working in the area which is really handy.

2.00pm: I check the documents that I have left with my secretary to type up. Once that is done my supervisor has a look over my drafts, and I arrange for the court fee to be drawn from accounts.

3.00pm: I set off for court to have our arrest application issued. Even though the court registry closes at 4.30pm I know by now how busy it can be there on a Friday afternoon, so it is better to leave plenty of time to pay the fee at the fees office and then go to the registry to have the application issued.

4.00pm: Luckily the deputy admiralty marshal and the admiralty marshal were expecting our application due to the conference call we had earlier in the day and there are no problems in having our application issued.

5.30pm: When I'm back at the office we call our client and inform them that everything has gone to plan, and they are extremely happy that we have been able to act so quickly.

6.00pm: My next seat is in Bangkok so I have a Thai language lesson in preparation for this, which is challenging but fun.

7.30pm: After my lesson is finished I check my emails before leaving and find out that next week I am going to be helping on a case to enforce foreign maintenance orders in the UK. The nature of the work is so varied and interesting that you could be in court having a vessel arrested one day and preparing advice on maintenance orders the next.