James Allen joined Hatch Brenner in 2006, and is currently taking his Legal Practice Course (LPC) at the College of Law, Birmingham. James comes from Dudley, in the West Midlands, but has also lived in many other places and is a former pupil of the International School of Geneva. He arrived in Norwich seven years ago to do a History degree at the University of East Anglia, and subsequently took a one-year Common Professional Examination/Diploma in Law conversion course. In 2003 he joined Norwich firm Howes Percival, where his work revolved around residential conveyancing. Since joining Hatch Brenner he has concentrated mainly on commercial conveyancing in his work for Susan Greenwood. James’s leisure interests include computers, model-making, cinema, war-gaming and 10-pin bowling.