TRAINING NEEDS AND SOLE PRACTITIONER SOLICITORS Available to Purchase

Sole practitioner solicitors′ firms provide a unique and relatively cost‐effective service. Such firms are believed to be at risk because of a trend within the legal profession towards larger practices offering a wider and more sophisticated range of services. Research reported here,however, suggests that sole practitioner practices are still potentially viable. Their vulnerability stems not from competition from larger practices, per se, but from solicitors′ lack of business education. Identifies the salient training needs.