[1] Craig Spangenberg earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Michigan in the 1930s.

Spangenberg gained national recognition for his firm by stepping forward to represent Canadian children injured by the birth-defect-causing morning sickness medication Thalidomide.

[5] Craig Spangenberg founded and served as the first president of the International Society of Barristers.

[6] Established in 1965, the ISOB 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 U.S. Virgin Islands, and from Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and Mexico, with the great majority from the United States.

[1] Craig Spangenberg married Elizabeth Jane Flansburg on 19 Nov 1937.

[1] Spangenberg died in Lyndhurst, OH and is buried at the Evergreen Hill Cemetery in Chagrin Falls, OH.

The argument went as follows, as recounted by James W. McElhaney in the American Bar Association Journal:[11] "We come to the subject of damages, and it's a difficult area of decision.

And if you as a jury were asked, 'What's fair compensation for what the driver of the car did to the farmer's truck?'

As a result you have three-hundred dozen grade A whites and yolks running all over the pavement.

"But he certainly was not a golf ball, and when the defendant sped through the stop sign and hit Mike Wilson, he did not bounce.