Alan Solomons (born 31 July 1950 in Uitenhage, South Africa) is a rugby union coach, who was recently the head coach at Edinburgh.After studying law at the University of Cape Town, Solomons practised law for 20 years where he was a partner at Sonnenberg, Hoffmann & Galombik.In 1997 he left law to pursue a professional rugby coaching career as the assistant coach for Western Province (winners of Currie Cup), The Stormers & the Springboks.In 1998 he was appointed head coach of Western Province(Currie Cup finalists) and in 1999 head coach of the Stormers(home semi finalists in 1999), a position he held until 2001.He remained as assistant Springbok coach working with the head coach, Nick Mallett until 2001(Tri Nations winners 1998, world record 17 unbeaten Test run & 3rd placed at RWC 1999). Wikipedia