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Key Facts
- National overview: The ABA GPSolo Solo and Small Firm Awards include a Solo and Small Firm Trainer Award category.
- National overview: The ABA describes the Solo and Small Firm Trainer Award as recognizing attorneys for significant contributions to educating lawyers or law students about solo and small firm practice opportunities and challenges.
- National overview: The ABA “Past Recipients” list identifies Alan J. Klevan of Wellesley, MA as the Solo and Small Firm Trainer Award recipient for 2009.
- National overview: The ABA repeats the Trainer Award recognition definition on its Solo and Small Firm Awards Luncheon page using category language.
- National overview: The Past Recipients list provides recipient name, location, and award year, but it does not include a detailed, 2009-specific explanation for why that recipient received the award.
- National overview: This archive recovery stays focused on award category purpose and recipient identification based on the ABA-hosted pages, not on adding unsourced biographical reasons or event details from the legacy post.
What this archive recovery reconstructs
This article preserves key, verifiable facts tied to a specific 2009 ABA GPSolo recognition item in the site’s Archives collection. The focus stays on what ABA-hosted award pages confirm about the Trainer Award category and the 2009 recipient, rather than reproducing or extending unverified details from the legacy post.
- What this archive recovery reconstructs
- Where the verified facts come from
- The Trainer Award category and its education purpose
- The 2009 recipient listed by ABA
- Comparison of ABA page types used in this recovery
- What this archive recovery does not confirm
- Why the Trainer Award category mattered in 2009
- Related ABA Archives reading on TheFirstFile
- Compact verified fact recap
- Sources
Where the verified facts come from
For archived recognition items, the most reliable material usually comes from the awarding organization’s own maintained pages. Here, the article relies on three ABA-maintained pages: the awards overview for the category name and recognition purpose, the Past Recipients list for the 2009 recipient line, and the awards presentation page for consistent category wording.
The Trainer Award category and its education purpose
The ABA GPSolo Solo and Small Firm Awards include a Solo and Small Firm Trainer Award category. ABA characterizes this Trainer Award as recognition for attorneys who have made significant contributions to educating lawyers or law students about the opportunities and challenges of solo and small firm practice (as described in ABA’s category language on the Solo and Small Firm Awards page).
The 2009 recipient listed by ABA
ABA’s maintained “Past Recipients” page for the Solo and Small Firm Awards lists the recipient for each year. On that page, ABA identifies Alan J. Klevan (Wellesley, MA) as the 2009 Solo and Small Firm Trainer Award recipient (via the Solo and Small Firm Awards Past Recipients list).
Comparison of ABA page types used in this recovery
Different ABA pages serve different evidentiary roles for an archive reconstruction. The table below summarizes what each page can reliably confirm for a recovery that prioritizes the verified listing and category wording.
| ABA source page type | What the page is good at confirming |
|---|---|
| Awards overview page | The Trainer Award category name and the stated recognition purpose (education-focused language) |
| Past recipients list | The recipient name, location, and award year (such as the 2009 entry for Alan J. Klevan) |
| Awards luncheon page | Consistency in category wording by repeating the Trainer Award recognition definition |
The recognition definition language appears again on the Solo and Small Firm Awards Luncheon page, reinforcing that the category description stays consistent across ABA pages.
What this archive recovery does not confirm
This recovery does not attempt to supply a detailed, 2009-specific narrative for why Alan J. Klevan received the Trainer Award, because the verified evidence used here does not include that kind of explanation. The Past Recipients list supports identifying the 2009 recipient, but it does not provide biography-based rationale within the list entry itself.
Similarly, the recovery avoids adding event logistics (such as meeting details) unless those details come from an ABA page tied to the 2009 award materials used in this reconstruction.
Why the Trainer Award category mattered in 2009
Although this is an archive recovery (not a current legal rule), the Trainer Award category language helps readers understand what ABA GPSolo intended to recognize. ABA’s stated recognition purpose centers on educating lawyers or law students about the practical realities of solo and small firm work—specifically, the opportunities and challenges that come with running a smaller practice. In that sense, the 2009 award listing for Alan J. Klevan fits into a broader legal education theme reflected in the Trainer Award’s recognition definition.
Related ABA Archives reading on TheFirstFile
Readers who want additional historical ABA Archives material tied to professional development themes may find it useful to compare the ABA annual meeting archive entry.
Readers interested in another ABA recognition-oriented archive entry can also compare the ABA legal education award archive entry.
Compact verified fact recap
The ABA-maintained pages used for this archive recovery confirm the following: (1) the Trainer Award category exists within the Solo and Small Firm Awards program, (2) the category purpose focuses on educating lawyers or law students about solo and small firm practice opportunities and challenges, and (3) Alan J. Klevan (Wellesley, MA) is listed as the 2009 Solo and Small Firm Trainer Award recipient.
