Natalia Kalina Isenberg

Natalia graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology and minor in Linguistics. Before attending Campbell University School of Law on a merit scholarship, Natalia worked as a litigation paralegal for an insurance defense firm.

While in law school, Natalia won the First Place Respondent Award in the law school's Intramural competition. She was a member of Campbell's Moot Court Team, and competed in the William E. McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition and the J. Braxton Craven Moot Court Competition. As an IOLTA scholarship recipient in 2005, Natalia interned with Legal Aid of Smithfield. She worked as a summer law clerk for Judge W. Earl Britt's chambers in the United States District Court Eastern Division, and as a summer intern with the North Carolina Court of Appeals in 2006. Natalia received the North Carolina State Bar Pro Bono Student Award in 2007 for her work as President of Project for Older Prisoners, a pro bono group dedicated to decreasing the financial burden on the State of the aging prison population.

After graduating, Natalia worked for two years as a law clerk for the Honorable Ann Marie Calabria at the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Natalia served as a board member of Wake Women Attorneys in 2009 and also on the North Carolina Bar Association Women in the Profession Committee from 2008 to 2009.

Natalia is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, North Carolina Bar Association, and Wake County Bar Association. She has successfully defended veterinarians from malpractice claims in small claims and district courts across the state, obtaining dismissals in each case. Natalia has also been successful in obtaining favorable results for clients in mediation, litigation before the Industrial Commission, and civil litigation in federal and district courts throughout the state. She divides her practice between civil defense litigation and workers' compensation.

Natalia volunteers with Project Together, a volunteer lawyer program through Legal Aid that partners attorneys in private practice with victims of domestic violence.