9.00am: I arrive in the office, make a cup of coffee and have a catch-up with my supervisor about what we did over the weekend. I check my Outlook calendar for today's appointments and read through my emails.

9.35am: I have received an email from one of the partners asking if I can update the articles of association of a pro bono client by tomorrow morning. Knowing that I have a full day ahead, I head straight to the library to read up on the Companies Act 2006.

10.10am: I get started with my main task of the morning which is reviewing the sale and purchase agreement of a multi million-pound transaction for one of our biggest clients. I have been actively involved in this deal since we received the initial instruction a couple of weeks ago and we're now in the process of negotiating the main documents. I'm being given lots to do (this is typical practice for OMM - I was given real work and responsibility from day one) and it's quite exciting!

11.30am: I head over to one of our conference rooms for a training session. Today we have a presentation from one of our litigation counsel on the implications of recent changes to bribery legislation.

12.35pm: I meet up with a couple of the other trainees for an early lunch at our favourite restaurant across the square. We chat about work, our weekends and which team we've been put on for the firm pub quiz on Thursday night!

1.35pm: Just as I get back to my desk I get a call from my previous supervisor in the Brussels office, where I was seconded last year. She asks me if I can update an article that I authored on cartels and information sharing, in light of some new legislation. I tell her that I'm happy to help, so I dig out the article and do some preliminary research online. Then I file these in my 'to do' tray for tomorrow morning as it's not due until Friday.

2.00pm: I go to a quick meeting of our office Green Committee. I get some final input from my colleagues for the spring edition of the newsletter, which I'm busy putting together.

2.25pm: I discuss with my supervisor the comments I made this morning on the sale and purchase agreement. Then we collate all the necessary documents and head over to our client's offices for a meeting to explain the amendments we're proposing to circulate to the seller's lawyers. Foreign counsel dial in too because the companies that the client is buying are based overseas.

4.55pm: I'm back at my desk now (with another coffee!) and start drafting the amendments to the agreements that were discussed at this afternoon's client meeting - it needs to be ready to send to opposing counsel by 6.00pm.

6.10pm: I receive an email from a colleague in our LA office - a client of his is buying a UK subsidiary of a global company and needs to know how to remove current directors and appoint new ones. I draft an advice memo explaining the procedure (I check this over with our London corporate partner and he says 'it's perfect'…. yes!) and offer to prepare the resignation letters, board minutes and file the Companies House forms. He gratefully accepts my offer, but tells me not to make a start on it until tomorrow - it has just gone 10.00am in LA but he knows that for me its nearly home time.

7.00pm: I quickly check my calendar for tomorrow and switch off my computer. I decide to reward myself for a hard day's work by popping to the bar downstairs for a quick drink with some friends from work, before heading home.