Countrywide Conveyancing Services
Countrywide Conveyancing Services (CCS) is the largest UK transactional conveyancing business by completions, an innovative market leading panel manager and the most successful property lawyer firm in the UK.
Years awarded: 2019, 2021
Region: Various locations
Size: 250-999 employees
Sector: Professional services
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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