2009 Solo & Small Firm Awards Winners

The ABA General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division is pleased to announce the 2009 Solo and Small Firm Awards Program Award Winners. The annual awards program recognizes dedication to the practice of law as general practitioners or solo or small firm lawyers.  Each year the Division honors outstanding solo and small firm practitioners, as well as bar leaders and bar associations. Recognition is given for Solo and Small Firm Lifetime Achievement, Solo and Small Firm Project Award and Solo and Small Firm Trainer Award. 

Available awards include:

• Solo and Small Firm Lifetime Achievement Award
• Solo and Small Firm Project Award
• Solo and Small Firm Trainer Award

The ABA General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division’s awards program is underwritten by the generous support of West, a Thomson Reuters business.

Recipients of the Division's 2007 Solo & Small Firm Awards were honored at GP|Solo’s 2007 Spring Meeting Awards Dinner in Washington, DC on May 11, 2007.

Solo and Small Firm Lifetime Achievement Award:

Charles J. Driebe  Jonesboro, GA

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Solo and Small Firm Project Award:

Lake County Bar Association
Judge Ted Klammer
Lake County Ohio Probate Court (Third Annual Probate and Mental Health Conference)

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Solo and Small Firm Trainer Award:

Bruce L. Dorner  Londonderry, NH

Donald C. Rikli Solo Lifetime Achievement Award

Allen M. Smallwood, Esq. Tulsa, OK

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Small Firm Practitioner of Merit Award

Marvin S.C. Dang, Esq.  Honolulu, HI

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Solo and Small Firm Project Award

Missouri Bar Association
Solo and Small Firm Committee
Solo and Small Firm Law Student Initiative
Frederick J. Cruse, Chair

DuPage County Bar Association
William E. Hooper Attorney Resource Center
Keith E. Roberts, Jr., President

Solo Of The Year Award:

Brian T. Hermanson,  Ponca City, OK

Recognizes exceptional, meritorious achievement by a sole practitioner widely accepted by his or her peers as having consistently achieved distinction in an exemplary way. The winner will also be viewed by other sole practitioners as epitomizing the ideals of the legal profession and sole practitioners.

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Solo And Small Firm Project Award

Ohio State Bar Association Solo, Small Firm & General Practice Section
“2004 Ohio Economics of Law Practice and Law Office Technology Survey”

North Carolina Bar Association General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section and the Law Practice Management Section
“North Carolina Small Law Office Resource Manual Fourth Edition (2005)”

Designed to reward bar leaders and associations for their successful projects. It recognizes the use of the most effective resources, regardless of overall budget.

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Solo Practitioner Of Merit:

Juan R. Thomas - The Thomas Group, Chicago, IL

Recognizes up to four sole practitioners throughout the country who through their efforts have shown outstanding dedication to the practice of law.

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Small Firm Practitioner of Merit:

Karen Coolman Amlong - Amlong & Amlong, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, FL

William R. Amlong - Amlong & Amlong, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Cynthia Richardson Wyrick - Ogle, Gass & Richardson, PC., Sevierville , TN

Recognizes up to four small firm practitioners throughout the country who through their efforts have shown outstanding dedication to the practices of law.