Conveyancing Direct
Conveyancing Direct (CDPL) is one of the largest providers of residential conveyancing in the UK, and forms part of the larger Connells Group. CDPL primarily seek to facilitate property sale and purchase transactions with the provision of a professional service which recognises that moving home can be a confusing and stressful event that should be as transparent and brief as possible. Conveyancing Direct was formerly known as Countrywide Conveyancing.
Years awarded: 2019, 2021, 2026
Region: Various locations
Size: 250-999 employees
Sector: Professional services, Property
Growing its own property lawyers to facilitate growth
Theme: Talent pipeline / Career pathways
Topics: Bespoke training; In-house; People with barriers; Work experience / internships / graduate programmes
Conveyancing Direct’s Graduate Training Programme has created a sustainable pipeline of property lawyers, reducing reliance on a competitive external recruitment market while supporting business growth. Since launching in 2024, 52 graduates have completed the programme, contributing to increases in fee-earner capacity, 2,450 additional active case files and a significant increase in revenue.
Upskilling from within to meet growth demand
Theme: Upskilling
This large provider of residential conveyancing realised that its growth plans could be affected by a shortage of trained lawyers. The business saw an opportunity to recruit existing staff into paralegal positions and fast track candidates into fee-earning roles. The programme which mixes legal theory and experiential learning has led to paralegals exchanging on a total of 752 files in 2020.
Offering structured career pathways
Themes: Talent pipeline / Career pathways; Upskilling
Topics: Academy
This large residential conveyancing provider established a Training Academy programme with well-defined career progression pathways for non-legally qualified employees and those with foreign qualifications not recognised by the UK legal system. Training Academy programme lawyers are achieving 40% of the business’s exchanges and 69% of those trained are still working for the company.
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