6.45 AM
I reluctantly stop hitting snooze on my alarm that has been going off since 6.15 am. I get up and immediately decide on the most important decision of the day, what to have for breakfast, and start getting ready. This morning I have selected a bowl of honey porridge and an almond latte.
7.30 AM
I run out the door to make my 7.45 am train. I am ecstatic to have gotten myself a seat! My favorite day to come in is a Friday, as the trains are nice and quiet. I like to do the Wordle and a Duolingo German lesson to maintain my current 110-day streak.
8.30 AM
I arrive at the Rialto building and head up to level 26. I am surprised every morning when my desk buddy, Seb, has once again, beaten me to work. I take a moment to contemplate the day I will win this one-sided competition.
8.40 AM
I open up my emails and begin my day. I am a graduate lawyer rotating through the Corporate Capital Markets team (ECM). The work revolves around assisting a wide range of companies, particularly in the biotech space, that are publicly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. It allows you to work directly with the companies to help them list, remain complaint,, and/or raise capital.
9.00 AM
I say hello to my team and suss out if there are any tasks to do. I speak to my supervising partner, Andrew Gaffney, who mentions we have an Extraordinary General Meeting at 10.00 am being held in our office. I read the ASX market announcement to prepare.
10.00 AM
I join Andrew to head to the client meeting rooms to attend my first EGM to pass a capital raising capacity resolution. We get to speak to the board and senior executives of the company and watch the voting. Wonderfully, it passes.
11.00 AM
Mathika Perera, a senior associate in the ECM team, provides me with supporting documents for a prospectus to mark up for our client, which I begin working on.
1.00 PM
For lunch time, I attended training on the billing system with lots of other members of the firm. I enjoyed the lovely catered sandwiches provided whilst trying to understand the foreign world of billing and time recording.
2.00 PM
I head back to my desk and continue working on those documents, and replying to emails as they come in with new tasks.
3.00 PM
I take a quick break to discuss the status of the footy tipping competition with Seb.
5.15 PM
It's time to start wrapping tasks up for the day. I send off emails with my work and file documents I have been working on. I meet up with a few other graduates to head down to the Irish Times Pub for a St Patricks day social event with all the new graduates.
7.30 PM
I say good bye to lots of the new lawyers I've met at the event and head out to catch a train home.
8.30 PM
I arrived home and started reading my notes to prepare for my PLT oral assessment happening tomorrow morning. I mull over all the civil procedures rules until I decide it is common knowledge.
11.00 PM
I head to bed and hope to understand the court process of enforcing a garnishee order by the time I wake up tomorrow morning to head to my Pilates class.
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