The NITA experience impacted my practice because the faculty showed me how to advocate and how to think on my feet. In Mexico, during my legal studies and practice I only learned the law and learned how to write essays and legal opinions to legal issues, but in NITA I learned how to be a lawyer. For the first time, in the NITA National Session, I felt like a lawyer.

–Manuel Caloca
Master in Trial Advocacy and in International Trade Law and Law Professor of University (Tec) of Monterrey and The University of Guadalajara Schools of Law

Without doubt, the Deposition Skills program was the most useful CLE course I have experienced in my eight years as an attorney.

 –H. Scott Leviant
Senior Associate at Arias, Ozzello & Gignac, LLP, Los Angeles, California

I thank NITA for the unswerving dedication to the advancement of Advocacy beyond the United States. Within Northern Ireland, the Advocacy Course has encouraged and enhanced understanding and bonds between members of the profession who have differing political views and backgrounds.  The supportive learning environment that NITA provides and the collegiality which the courses inspire combine to make them truly unique and incredibly valuable beyond the adversary mission alone.

–Anne Fenton
Institute for Professional Legal Studies/Queen’s University Belfast



 

The Mid-Central Trial Skills program is a fantastic part of my success. My skills have universally improved and I strongly recommend NITA programs to other attorneys. My firm has always encouraged the associates to attend NITA training, but my success speaks to the effectiveness of the programs, and has done a lot to reinforce the partners' feelings about NITA.  –Jimmie L. McMillian Barnes & Thornburg LLP in Indianapolis, IN

All of my colleagues who have taken NITA training in the past assured me it was the crème de la crème of trainings, and after experiencing it myself I am in full agreement with that assessment.

–Karla Mae Bosse
Indian Law Unit of Montana Legal Services Association, Cut Bank, MT

I love NITA materials! They are grounded experiential problems that permit students to learn by seeing, reading, and doing. I have used them for years.

–J. Steven Beckett
Director, Trial Advocacy Program, University of Illinois, College of Law

NITA and the NITA family have been a huge part of my life for the last ten years and I truly believe that NITA deserves some of the credit for my promotion [to Deputy Attorney General for Public Safety]. I have had the honor of working with some of the finest faculty in the world—obviously something rubbed off. –Robert Hildum Deputy Attorney General for Public Safety, Washington, DC

We have run our in-house training programs at facilities, private and public, all over the country, and not one even compares with the NITA Education Center. The layout of the courtrooms and conference rooms, the technology/equipment, and the staff support have no equal anywhere. It's also, of course, a beautiful place to bring people.

–Steven D. McCormick
Partner, Kirkland and Ellis, LLP, Chicago, Illinois

I FINALLY get the difference between the questions asked on cross-examination and direct examination. I FINALLY get what a leading question is! The hands-on workshops, along with your great selection of trainers, really made a difference. This really is what I call a life-changing experience.

–Jennifer Lee Chino
Managing Attorney, DNA-People's Legal Services, Tuba City, Arizona


 

In our trial advocacy and clinical programs at Wake Forest, we use nothing but NITA problems and case files. We’ve tried a myriad of other options over the years, but none of them work nearly so well. –Carol B. Anderson Professor at Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

I just had my first trial, and prevailed in no small part to what I learned from the incredible faculty and training program I attended a couple of weeks ago for legal-services attorneys.

–Timothy J. Williams
Utah Legal Services, Salt Lake City, Utah

I participated as faculty many years ago at the National program. I continue to think that NITA is the best trial advocacy program available, and we have been fortunate that you have allowed the Colorado AG's office to send 5–6 lawyers every summer at a discounted rate. Sounds like things continue to go well for NITA. The young lawyers who attended the National session this summer were very complimentary.

–Beth McCann
Deputy Attorney General, Colorado Attorney General’s Office, Denver, Colorado

I have always been proud of the work I did at NITA and really enjoyed the courses and benefited from them. The two week workshop (National) and the Hanley workshop on trial ad were just phenomenal. -Michael D. Kaminski, Foley & Lardner, LLP, Washington, DC

I am very proud of having achieved the Advocate and Master Advocate Designations!!! I credit NITA with having taught me how to be not only technically correct, but, proficient in many different trial skills areas.

-Matt Chapel, Attorney at Law, Celina, Ohio