Solon Press

Group access

Solon Press for firms and law schools

This page is for the partner, the learning and development manager or the law teacher who wants to put the library in front of a trainee intake, a seat or a class. It says what a firm or a law school gets, how group access works, how to arrange it, and the prices from 1 February 2027. Until then we arrange group access by email.

1What a firm or a law school gets

• The whole library for your readers: every edition, every chapter, every training document and every test. There are 26 editions today, and new editions join the library as they come out.
• One payment for the group, not one per reader. From 1 February 2027 a firm of 5 to 19 readers pays by card at checkout; a firm of 20 readers or more, or a university, can pay by invoice and bank transfer.
• Sign-in by email. Each reader signs in with a link sent to their work address. There are no passwords to hand out and nothing to install.
• A record for each reader. Every reader keeps their own account, their own progress, a certificate and a one-page record of learning for a solicitor's continuing competence file.
• For a firm, a progress view. For each reader, how many chapter tests they have passed in each edition since they joined, whether they passed the final exam, and whether they hold a certificate and a record of learning. Each reader is told about this before they join.
• For a university or law school, counts only. How many accounts there are on your email domain, and how many opened the Library this licence year. Never names, and never a student's progress.

2How group access works

Group access is a list of accounts, not a shared login. Until 31 January 2027 it works like this:

1. You send us the number of readers and their work email addresses.
2. Each reader signs in from a link sent to their work address. No card is asked for at any point.
3. We open every edition to each of those accounts for the term on your invoice, and we email each reader to say so. For a firm, the email also says what the firm will see of their progress.
4. Readers can use any device, with a test after every chapter and an exam at the end. Progress follows the account from phone to laptop.
5. A reader who finishes an edition claims their certificate and record of learning themselves. It carries the reader's own name and stays with the reader.
6. When a reader leaves, tell us, and their place passes to another reader. From February a firm changes readers itself, on its own group page.

3What you can see, and what you cannot

A firm sees, for each reader in its group, the date they joined, how many chapter tests they have passed in each edition since then, whether they passed the final exam, and whether they hold a certificate and a record of learning. It covers only readers who joined the firm's group, and each of them is told so before joining. Until February we send this view by email when a firm asks; from February it sits on a page of its own.

A firm cannot see a reader's answers, scores, the time they spent, or which pages they read.

A university or law school sees counts only: how many accounts there are on its email domain, and how many of them opened the Library this licence year. A count under 5 shows as "fewer than 5". It never sees names, and never a student's progress.

The accounts are the readers' own, and the privacy notice applies to each of them as it does to any reader.

4How to arrange it

Until 31 January 2027, write to chief@solonpress.com with three things:

• the firm or the school;
• the number of readers;
• the date you would like them to start.

We reply by email. If you go ahead, we send an invoice. Once it is paid, we open every edition to your readers' accounts and tell you they can sign in.

5Prices from 1 February 2027

• A firm, 5 to 19 readers: €59 a reader a year, plus VAT where it applies.
• A firm, 20 readers or more: €49 a reader a year, plus VAT where it applies. You can pay by invoice and bank transfer, with your purchase order number on the invoice.
• A university or law school: €990 a year, plus VAT where it applies, however many students it has. You can pay by invoice.
• Fewer than 5 readers: each reader takes the Library on their own.

A firm's or a university's plan renews each year until you cancel. We email you 30 days before it renews.

From 1 February 2027 a firm can arrange it all on the site. You enter the number of readers, the page picks the price, and you pay through Paddle, our merchant of record. You then get a join code for your readers and a page that shows their progress. You can change the number of readers there at any time, and Paddle adjusts the charge for the rest of the year.

Buyers in the United Kingdom pay in pounds: £50 a seat, or £42 from 20 seats, and £850 for a university, each yearly and plus VAT where it applies.

A university names its email domain when it buys. Anyone who signs up with an address on that domain gets the whole library while the licence runs. We accept .ac.uk addresses at once and check any other domain once, by hand. Readers confirm their university address again once a year.

6For teaching staff

Teaching staff may link to any page, add any page to a reading list and quote short extracts, with or without a group arrangement. The catalogue descriptions, the stable addresses, the subject placement and a cite-as line are on the page for law libraries and law schools.

7Contact

Questions, a quote, or a title you wish existed for your intake: chief@solonpress.com. One address, read by the editors.