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Looking over your shoulder?

Sole practitioners must familiarise themselves with new developments in the law while doing all the work and reorganisation, without the advantage of moral support.

But how much moral support can be had within a partnership? Many sole practitioners believe that it is only in theory that they are missing out.

They are not convinced that working in a partnership would necessarily provide support.

While it is obvious that input from peers and superiors is lacking in sole practice, many feel their independence means not having to look over their shoulder ‘to see where the next dagger’s coming from’.

On a practical level, the worst problem for the sole practitioner may be finding locum cover for the holidays; in a partnership, a holiday break may well lead to heightened anxiety through fear of changes which may have been made in the partner’s absence.

In bad periods, when they feel at their most unsupported, many sole practitioners feel there is the danger of reaching for the bottle or pills.

Having chosen to work on their own, they must develop the ability to live with the solitude and uncertainty of their work world.

- Going it alone, June 23, 2000, LawGazette.co.uk.

4. So far, so not good in Manhattan.

Coach Mike Woodson said he is not worried about his job security nor is he constantly looking over his shoulder with the New York Knicks off to a slow start. The Knicks (1-3) have lost three straight games, and Woodson felt that in two of them (Minnesota and Charlotte) the team wasn’t very competitive early. And the coach just lost Tyson Chandler, his starting center and best defensive player, for four to six weeks with a small non-displaced fracture of his right fibula.