Mark S. Caldwell
National Institute For Trial Advocacy
Mark S. Caldwell, Esq., currently service as a Program Director for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He retired from a full time position at NITA in 2019 where his work entailed the design of new programs, course materials, development of case files, designing teaching methods, and video presentations. As a NITA Program Director, Mark Caldwell administers, and teaches at a wide variety of NITA's advocacy skills programs, including the Rocky Mountain Building Trial Skills Program, The Rocky Mountain Deposition Skills Program, and NITA's Faculty Training Programs. He also regularly teaches at other advocacy skills programs including the ABA Section of Family Law Advocacy Institute. His past work also includes many of NITA's specialty programs, including Bankruptcy Litigation, Patent Litigation, and Tax Court Litigation. Mark Caldwell also serves as Program Director for some of NITA's pro bono efforts, including programs to Native American lay advocates, lawyers working for legal service and public service organizations, including courses for lawyers working in juvenile settings, domestic violence cases, and representing immigrants in asylum matters. Included among his published works are NITA case files and problems, NITA's Faculty Training Manual, and law review articles on both international law and continuing legal education. He lectures on continuing and adult education and advocacy skills on a national basis, including presentations to the Association for Continuing Legal Education, Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc., the Colorado Women's Bar Association, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and Stetson University College of Law. Mark Caldwell has worked as a consultant with a number of organizations and law firms in the development, administration and marketing of continuing education courses, including the American Bar Association and Professional Education Systems, Inc. He served as Assistant Dean of the University of Denver College of Law and as Executive Director of Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc. Mark Caldwell volunteers his time in a variety of forms. He has served as a member of the Water Board for the town of Shawnee, Colorado and the Board of Directors for Disability Law Colorado (formerly The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People). He was a member of the State Board of Education Advisory Committee on Gifted and Talented Education. He has shared his time in working with high school students who compete in the Colorado Bar Association's Mock Trial Competition. Mr. Caldwell earned his J.D. from the University of Denver. He has been recognized for his work as teacher, program designer and administrator, receiving NITA's Robert Oliphant Award for Service (2001) and Hon. Prentice Marshall Award for Excellence in the Creation of Education Techniques (2009), the University of Denver's Institute for Advance Legal Studies Educator of the Year Award (1999), and recognition from the Colorado Asian American Bar Association, and the American Bar Association Section of Family Law. In 2014, the Association for Continuing Legal Education awarded NITA its Award of Outstanding Achievement in Programs for the Building Trial Skills: Rocky Mountain program, which Mr. Caldwell designed and administered. In 2018 Mr. Caldwell was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching Advocacy by Stetson University's College of Law.
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