hello it's your girl simranjeet kaur mann here and i am showing you a day in my life
as a trainee solicitor in real estate so for those of you who don't know real estate is actually a
really really versatile area of law it's an area that encompasses so many different subgroups
which is why i love this practice area so much so for example in my seat at the moment some of the
things that i'm involved in is public sector work i am involved in asset management i am involved
in work with developers and investors i'm also involved in real estate finance matters as well
as landlord-tenant relationships as well so within real estate there are so many different things and
areas that i can get involved in all relating to property now let's jump into my actual day like
every single day i start off with my to-do list and i sort out any emails that have come in from
the day before so i sort out my emails in terms of action and general action being those emails
that need to be actioned and general are emails for me to read but there are no action points so
once it's put in the general folder i don't need to consider that email anymore now let's jump into
the actual bits of work that i was doing today now of course i can't go into complete detail
because of client confidentiality and i would lose my job but firstly i start off with filling out an
update report for a big client that we work for this table essentially provides the clients that
i'm working with an update on where we are at with all the different matters that are happening for
this project one reason why i really really like this task is because it allows me to reflect on
all the progress that's happened for this matter so far all the matters that i've been involved in
and it also kind of reminds me as well are there any points where i need to send a chaser
are there any further action points and then like every other trainee you're gonna end up doing this
at some point i did some printing for a colleague one thing i try and do when i am printing
out documents is actually try and read what's happening read the documents while it's being
printed out to give you a bit of an insight so i just helped out a colleague with something and
i don't know my colleagues up there nice she just called me a star after it and i feel very gassed
next up i am submitting some land registry applications so for those of you who are aware
with real estate you will know all about the land registry for those of you who aren't so when we
are submitting any new application so for example say if two parties have entered into a lease
we then need to register that lease with the land registry so it is noted on the title this
application i'm talking about in particular i was registering a transfer and a legal charge at the
land registry next up it's always time for a bit of a coffee break what me and the other trainees
do is really cute we always go together and we go and get a coffee it's a nice break away from
the desk i personally don't drink coffee so i'm always getting a hot chocolate then i got
back to my desk and i finished submitting those land registry applications that i talked about
that took around 40 minutes in total as i was printing out some documents to sign and then
scanning those documents back in reviewing the documents and then uploading around 10 to 11
documents within each application so it was quite a complicated application and attention to detail
was really really key here to make sure that no document was forgotten my next task was again in
relation to the land registry i was resubmitting an application that was previously cancelled so
basically when the land registry cancels or sends you a requisition it's essentially saying thank
you for your application but this at this point this point this point is not correct and we need
you to amend it before you can progress further with your application so this application had
previously gotten cancelled because we didn't reply to the requisition this application was
cancelled due to something that was written in the original lease so i had to then go upstairs
and go through loads and loads of boxes to try and find that original lease i called my colleague for
help and she provided information on where those additional boxes could be so i'm not just walking
around the whole office trying to find something that may not even be there i was quite lucky i
found the lease which was great i think it took me around seven boxes of searching but i got
there in the end i then sent a manuscript copy of the list so manuscript copy is essentially
when the lease has already been signed but you make an amend to the lease after it's
been signed and it's also an amend that the other side solicitors have also agreed to guess the key
skill that i've shown here is direct contact with the other side solicitors with minimal supervision
i then attended some training on docusign so docusign is a really great thing especially in the
pandemic where sending hard copies of documents to the client has been very difficult for them to
get signed because we're not working in the office as much anymore i think docusign really does allow
us to work from home and ensure that documents still get signed and completed and then it was
finally lunchtime our canteen is actually sick i rate our canteen so much hello i want to quickly
interrupt this day in the life with a quick quick promo video i am so so grateful and thank you
to let's go for sponsoring this video today now i'm not gonna lie i am really really excited
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on a phone call or texting individuals now lessgo is trying to bring this good era back but with
a modern twist the aim and objective of lessgo is to encourage more offline living rather than
living online so essentially what the app does is uses social media to allow you to meet new people
create events and really build your own networks so in the app i'll show you a few screenshots you
can explore different meats that are available now here's a good selection of meats that i found
simply just by scrolling down the page we have an nft club very snazzy with the times we have
an influences meetup as well this is great just like the one that i hosted with kajol and reel
devamsha and tanvi earlier last year and of course for you sporting people out there as well there
are sports meets available just like badminton that i've shown on the screen now as well
the opportunities are endless and i hope you can see from the meets that i've shown available
that these motives and events are available to people of all ages now one really really
unique feature about lessgo that's recently been introduced is you can now create your own clubs
now to give you an example i've created one called the manndem and in this club i can create my own
meets so these are events that i've created purely for people who are part of my club and within that
i can create my own networking events i can create my own socials just like the coffee catch up the
informal one that i've mentioned earlier that i had with my other youtube pals now i'm aiming to
host my first meet very very soon in this year so that should be enough incentive to you to download
the app and give it a go you can find details about the app in the video description below right
so now we've just had lunch and the afternoon is starting i'd say roughly it's probably
around 1 30 slash 2 p.m at the moment and i start off my afternoon with redacting a lease the reason
why we were redacting this lease is because there are certain clauses in there that we wish to keep
secret gone are the days i remember as a paralegal when i had to actually get a black marker
and keep on marking the redacted clause scanning it in marking it again with the black ink
scanning it in again and making sure that when you hold it up in the light you cannot see the
any words my next task was actually drafting a statutory declaration and warning notice a few
of you may remember during the lpc and also during landlord about the 1954 act and how
in leases sometimes the parties may decide to contract out of the 1954 act and then after i did
this i had a meeting with some of the other real estate trainees around the country it's quite cute
we've made a bit of a group and we have meetings bi-weekly where we just discuss any issues and we
just catch up really it's always been such a nice chat with these lovely ladies shout out to them i
think they're great after this meeting i was then involved in downloading some documents so this is
where a bit of the real estate finance work came in there are some documents that were located in a
data room and it was my job to like download them and save them onto our local folder incorporating
the same folder structure as it was in the data room then those documents then get reviewed later
on and i know it sounds like quite a menial task but if i missed out a single document
then that would mean it that document would not get reviewed and that would mean that it wouldn't
be a comprehensive data review so again attention to detail is really really important here to make
sure that you don't miss out any documents when you're downloading them and then around 4 p.m
it was nearing to the end of the day and i thought i would make a start on this lease report
for a matter and this is a matter that i've been working on from the start it was essentially a
lease and we were acting for the landlord now what we do in these situations is also draft
a lease report now what a lease report is it's a document that we give to our client that explains
in layman's terms the key provisions of the lease so then if the client has any issues or has any
questions in the future about the lease they can then refer to this document which then explains
them very very clearly about what certain clauses mean to finish off the day i did a bit of work
for an upcoming social that we've got coming up so that was essentially my working day and i finished
around 5 30 today usually i finish around 5 45 6 and i go with the other trainees and we go and
grab a drink or like have a bite to eat after work but this time i was in a real rush to
go and get my covert jab my boosted jab i don't know why my man injected my shoulder
thanks so much for watching the vlog
i hope you had a lot of fun watching it and i will see you all in the next one bye