Craig Spangenberg Memorial Scholarships Named
Please join the NITA Foundation in applauding the valuable partnership with the International Society of Barristers (ISOB) to support attorneys working with underserved clients. In 2011, $14,055 was awarded to the advocates of justice listed below who received the prestigious Craig Spangenberg Memorial Scholarship which was made possible through the ISOB’s generosity in granting $75,000 over five years (2009 – 2014) to the NITA Foundation. Scholarship award selection was based on the ISOB criteria of ideally selecting individuals from small firms and single practitioners with a focus on trial programs.
The NITA Foundation and the ISOB share a common purpose: helping young lawyers enhance their advocacy skills, thereby improving the justice system and its components. These dedicated attorneys work in the public interest and are often underfunded and outspent by their opponents, which is why a scholarship to attend a NITA program is so important. All of the scholarship recipients in 2011 either were solo practitioners or work for a small firm as they strive to represent the legal rights of those who are underserved in our community.
About ISOB
Established in 1965, the ISOB is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the University of Michigan Law School, and is an honor society of outstanding trial lawyers chosen by their peers on the basis of excellence and integrity in advocacy. The distinguished Society seeks to preserve trial by jury, the adversary system, and independence of the judiciary. With a limited membership, the Society has Fellows from every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and from Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and Mexico, with the great majority from the United States. Nationally known as a premier trial lawyer, Craig Spangenberg was a founder of ISOB and also served as the first president of the organization. For more information on ISOB please visit, www.isob.com.
Larry Archie
Law Office of Larry L. Archie
Greensboro, NC
Attended: Building Trial Skills – Southeast
(5/14 to 5/20, 2011)
Raquel Brown
Law Offices of RD Brown
Desoto, TX
Attended: Deposition Skills: Southern
(6/16 to 6/18, 2011)
Angela Eastman
Eastman Law & Dispute Resolution
South Burlington, VT
Attended: Building Trial Skills: Northwest
(8/13 to 8/18, 2011)
Jessica Major
Law Office of Jessica Major
Cary, NC
Attended: Building Trial Skills – Southeast
(5/14 to 5/20, 2011)
Cedric Mims
Mims Law Firm PLLC
Cedar Hills, TX
Attended: Building Trial Skills: Southern
(6/4 to 6/09, 2011)
Greg Nodler
Lone Star Legal Aid
Houston, TX
Attended: Deposition Skills: Houston
(3/17 to 3/19, 2011)
Charles Raether
AMLaw Group
Fairfax, VA
Attended: Building Trial Skills – DC
(6/6 to 6/12, 2011)
Patricia Smith
Patricia A. Smith
Chicago, IL
Attended: Deposition Skills: Midwest
(6/22 – 6/24, 2011)
Mark Thuesen
Law Offices of Mark Scott Thuesen
Oakland, CA
Attended: Building Trial Skills: Pacific
(10/21 to 10/28, 2011)
NITA’s team of practicing lawyers, professors and judges from around the nation dedicates its efforts to the training and development of skilled and ethical legal advocates to improve the adversarial justice system. 
