A Newport-based conveyancing firm is launching a recruitment drive which is set to boost its workforce by 30 per cent, thanks to the buoyant property market and optimistic outlook for 2016.

Specialist residential conveyancing lawyers Convey Law, based in Stow Hill in the centre of Newport, has posts available for 25 paralegals and junior conveyancers in 2016, taking its current workforce to more than100 staff for the first time.

Convey Law, one of the largest specialist conveyancing firms in the UK, was recently voted One to Watch in the Sunday Times Best 100 Companies in the UK to work for in 2015 and also became the first UK conveyancing company to achieve a Gold Investors in People Accreditation in 2015.

Both accolades were given largely as as a result of high quality in-house training and development programmes at the firm.

The company has developed the first online paralegal course for conveyancers in conjunction with the Conveyancing Association, which is made up of the top 50 conveyancers in the UK.

Over the last 18 months, Convey Law has won a number of conveyancing awards, including the coveted Sunday Times Best Conveyancer Award.

Managing director of Convey Law Lloyd Davies, who is also operations director of the Conveyancing Association and the chairman of the Conveyancing Foundation, said: “Our training and development team has worked hard over the course of the last 24 months to put in place a structure where we can train graduates and paralegals into junior conveyancing roles within a very short period of time.

“The firm has a very progressive environment. We provide clear guidance to everyone who works here as to how to progress and achieve the career and salaries that they want to achieve. Every individual has a bespoke learning development plan, which is constantly monitored to ensure that they are achieving their career objectives.

“This is an exciting time for Convey Law and the conveyancing industry. Six new junior conveyancers moved into our ‘conveyancing nursery’ this year, where they learn their trade.

"Each one of them has their own caseload, which is directly supervised and audited by a senior conveyancer. By the end of the next 12 months, we expect them to qualify as licensed conveyancers, to be working with an assistant paralegal and to achieve the appropriate salary increase."