8.30am: Upon arrival in the office I check my email. I have an email from Filippo Noseda, a partner in my department, asking me to source a particular trust precedent, which we may need to use for a potential client. I look on the firm's internal precedent system and print one off.9.00am: My supervisor, Anna Steward, tells me that the Isle of Man has just announced that in its application of the EU Savings Directive it will move to automatic exchange of information within the EU. This may affect a client who is a UK resident non-domiciliary but has business there; I research the consequences and send an email to the client.10.00am: Filippo asks me to join him in a client meeting. The client is a Syrian national who has acquired citizenship in Belgium. He is now resident in the UK with his French wife but has assets here, in Belgium, Syria and Singapore. He would like us to draw up a will for him to cover his worldwide assets. He would also like advice regarding the remittance basis of taxation, given that he has now been resident in the UK for several years.11.15am: The meeting finishes and I am asked to draft the client an engagement letter accompanied by a note of what was discussed in the meeting. I discuss with Filippo what the client wants us to do, what we should estimate our fees to be, etc. I draft the engagement letter based on a precedent and dictate the note of meeting for my secretary to type up.1.00pm: I go for lunch with some colleagues and we discuss the choices for our next seat as we have to let HR know soon.1.45pm: My secretary has now typed up the note of meeting and I amend it and categorise it so that there are separate sections for our understanding of the facts, advice given and next steps. I then give this to Filippo to check.

2.30pm: I receive a phone call from a member of the family department who needs an email from her Italian client translated into English. I am keen for any excuse to practise my Italian, particularly as I will be spending my next seat in the Milan office.2.45pm: A FAB team lawyer (family and business planning) asks me to pick up a grant of probate from Holborn Principal Registry.3.30pm: Back at my desk the client from this morning's meeting rings me as Filippo is in another meeting. He wants to know whether there will be tax implications if he transfers half of his London property to his wife. I tell him I will get back to him by email. Having checked the internal knowhow system and liaised with the colleague who I sit with, I email the client to let him know that stamp duty land tax is likely to be payable given that he has a mortgage on this property.4.30pm: My supervisor speaks to a client who is querying tax issues regarding property ownership in France and would like help liaising with the French property agent as he knows Anna speaks French fluently. I listen in on these conversations as I learn a lot and it helps me to understand the context of work which Anna may ask me to do for that client.4.40pm: Filippo has some comments to add to the advice section of the note from this morning's client meeting. I discuss these with him and make the relevant amendments.5.15pm: I read through and draft a summary of an article in relation to HMRC 6, the new HMRC guidance booklet on residence issues. I then email this to Imogen, who is a professional support lawyer and is in charge of compiling a monthly bulletin of articles relevant to wealth planning and estates succession and trusts.7.00pm: I leave the office and head to Jamie's, a bar just a stone's throw away, to have a farewell drink with an Italian stagiaire who is leaving the next day.