Join the Senior Partner and Founder of Hodge, Jones and Allen law firm who is coming to talk to students and answer their questions.
On March the 12th Patrick Allen – the Senior Partner and Founder of Hodge, Jones and Allen – is coming to talk to students, answer their questions and have lunch with colleagues.
If you are interested in meeting Patrick please note that he will be delivering a presentation at 12 noon in the Lecture Centre – LC064. He will be accompanied by Brunel students on placement at HJA.
HJA was founded in 1977 and has an established reputation as Civil Rights’ lawyers - being responsible, for example, for the Judicial Review that resulted in the reopening of the investigation into Stephen Lawrence’s death. HJA also won the landmark case in 2013 at the Supreme Court on behalf of those killed in Iraq in Snatch Land Rovers. Patrick himself is known for his work for the victims of the Kings Cross Fire and Marchioness disaster. Today, HJA have over 220 employees, including 90 lawyers practising in 12 areas of law.
Last year Patrick commissioned a survey on the future of the Law profession which received national media coverage. (This is available for for download here.)
If you would like to know more about Patrick, you may be interested in the profile of him that appeared in The Law Society Gazette.