Day In My Life As A Corporate Lawyer - THE HONEST TRUTH (Working Weekends)

[Music] so I'm very excited to say it's Sunday and today because I'm really insanely busy at work at the moment I'm going to be number one prioritizing self-care and also working for a bit on a big deal I'm currently working on as well as doing a bit of work on my YouTube channel so this morning I'm waking up at my mom's house where this Channel all began and if you've been watching for years you'll probably recognize my bedroom from my LW student days it's pretty crazy how far I've come in the last 4ish years to now being a fully qualified lawyer with nearly 250k subscribers but despite how far I may have come the reality of being a lawyer and a YouTuber is that the first thing I do when I wake up is check my work emails and then look to see how my video that I released yesterday is doing and to be completely honest releasing videos is pretty brutal I think lots of people see YouTube and the kind of Glamour and making lots of money and stuff but the reality is that when YouTube tells you that the video you just released is the worst performing video you've made out of the last 10 you have released it's pretty tough so while Beth sleeps a bit more I get on Photoshop to redesign my thumbnail to try and improve the clickthrough rate so once I've tweaked the thumbnail unless work is insanely busy I always try to make sure that Sunday morning is for Home Comfort and chilling and that means a nice breakfast with my mom and Beth and I got to say coming home is epic obviously to see my mom but also because there's always nice food in and I don't have to think about anything and can just sit and we can all chat together about our wedding and holidays and fun stuff that isn't too serious and watch some Sunday brunch which is an easy viewing cooking Chat Show here in the UK we then head out on A really lovely 45 minute-ish walk and we chat loads and just just get some fresh air and I got to say I really love getting out of London at least once a month if you live in a big city I think it's really easy to get caught up in the bubble of London life where everyone is working really hard and doing the same thing so I find just getting out of the city just having a bit more perspective on my life and what I want to achieve is really helpful so I would really encourage you if you do live in a big city every once in a while to get out for a cheap weekend away if you can when we get back we have a lovely healthy lunch of avocado on toast with and this is a hack that my mom taught me and Beth while we were over uh instead of doing a poached egg which I find is usually Carnage and you end up with just like egg white everywhere you just soft boil the egg and then deshell them and you end up with basically a poached egg on toast but with all of the egg white and don't make such a big mess mom and Beth then spend a little bit of time looking for a dress for my mom to wear to our wedding and then we travel back and in case you're wondering why I look quite so serious when we should be you know jamming and having fun in the car Beth and I jamm to podcasts about business while we're traveling together when we get home there are still a couple of things I need to work on for my YouTube channel while Beth does a bit of work on [Music] menos all right so just got back from my mom's and first off I am going to work on my YouTube channel while Beth works on menos I'm going to be commenting on an edit of a video that H has put together in a Dropbox tool called replay which is part of the Dropbox Essentials plan now I think loads of you will be interested in Dropbox Essentials because it includes loads of tools to help you get organized and especially to stay on top of your content if you're a content creator or a business owner all at a very reasonable price Dropbox is also I'm very happy to say sponsoring today's video now since I started my YouTube channel for years years ago I've used loads of different tools one tool for uploading footage to another tool for commenting on edits another tool for uploading videos and sharing with sponsors and another tool for screen recordings but I've become a huge fan of Dropbox Essentials because it gives me all of these things in one place we're talking 3 terab of storage PDF editing unlimited e signatures and one of my favorite capabilities which is the tool I'm using right now Dropbox replay replay allows me to comment frame by frame on my editor's edit of my video and then once I'm happy with it for me to share it with sponsors so that they can comment on precise moments all within replay I also love capture which is a really easy to use and Powerful screen recording tool that allows me to insert screen recordings into my videos and also to give feedback to my thumbnail designer so I can take a screen recording explaining what I'd like changed rather than spending ages typing out a really long and confusing message you can also easily add voiceovers and markups to your screen recordings and you can convert them to GIFS so they're easy to share so yeah Dropbox Essentials has given me one platform with lots of the tools I need meaning I have more time to focus on making amazing videos and pushing my business menos forwards and if you'd like to join me you can check out Dropbox Essentials through the link in the description YouTube work done is then time for some corporate law work and again I don't always work at weekends but I have been particularly busy over the last 3 to 6 months I would say so I went for probably 3 to 6 months barely working a single weekend and now over the last 3 to 6 months I've maybe had to work an hour or two a few weekends and then a few more intense weekends but to be honest it just really depends how busy you are how busy the deals that you're working on are it is absolutely not something that I have to do every weekend or nearly every weekend but it does happen sometimes so today I'm just spending 1 hour updating a checklist that I'll be presenting to a call full of loads of clients first thing tomorrow morning because I didn't have time to get through the whole thing on Friday Friday evening essentially as you work towards a deal closing which is when the asset actually changes hands for the purchase price and people receive the money they are owed you usually have these pretty regular calls to check in on progress towards closing because there are a whole ton of complex conditions in agreements that basically have to be satisfied in order for closing to happen so that's why you generally have a deal sign then you have a period of time for conditions to be satisfied and then once those have all been satisfied you have a closing and one of my key jobs on this deal is ensuring that we are working towards satisfying all of those conditions by drafting the relevant legal documentation and also that our clients are taking all of the other steps needed to fulfill the conditions so that closing can [Music] happen B who doesn't love it let's do this once I'm happy that I'm going to confidently be able to leave the call tomorrow morning morning I then pop to the gym for just 30 minutes I'm getting back into it cuz I felt a bit ill over the last couple of weeks so slowly building back up my fitness and after a pretty good session with some body weight exercises and a few lightweights I get back shower and put my pajamas on and then do a few quick chores like putting away washing that's been out for the entirety of the last week probably dry by now Beth and I then have a lovely selfcare evening from 5:00 p.m. onwards for the whole of the rest of the day cooking some healthy risoto and just chilling out together ready for another busy week not sponsored monkey Jin best gin in the world stepy it's bloodly expensive though thanks very much for my auntie get me this for Christmas thanks auntie Becky also sponsored by Ridge Valley premium tronic water Aldi's knockoff up so Beth absolutely crushed that risotto flipping delicious um and now we are going to sit on the sofa watch some traitors um traitors UK but there is also us and Australia if you've never seen it honestly such good TV it's like Mafia the board game but a TV show anyway amazing we got three episodes to get through probably will get through them all tonight which is epic and yeah I'm going to sit on the sofa that one and uh just have a nice chill out together so yeah I hope You' enjoyed this chilled productive day in the life and I look forward to speaking again very very soon see you later

Channel: Liam Porritt

Views: 38,628

Keywords: day in the life, lawyer, corporate lawyer, corporate law, weekend, self-care, lawyer life, life as a lawyer, daily routine, healthy routine, 9 to 5 routine

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Length: 9min 20sec (560 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 18 2024