“In litigation, as well as in life, there are missed opportunities because people do not use creativity in approaching problems. Approaching issues with insight, and sometimes with a woman's touch, has helped me achieve success for my clients.”
Ms. Lambert has over 35 years of experience in handling complex commercial litigation and insurance matters. Ms. Lambert has worked on cross-jurisdiction actions, significant litigation and regulatory matters for Fortune 500 companies. She has also assisted small and mid-sized companies and business executives with contract, real estate, liability assessment and commercial disputes that needed to be resolved quickly and efficiently. She also represents various condemning authorities in eminent domain matters, including on issues relating to scope of eminent domain powers and valuation.
Ms. Lambert is the firm’s Co-Liaison for Harmonie, a national network of high quality law firms that serve the special needs of the risk industry, and was recently appointed to Harmonie’s Board.
Education
- Wake Forest University Law School, J.D., with honors, 1982
- University of North Carolina, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, 1979
- Editorial Staff, Wake Forest Law Review
Bar Admissions
- Maryland
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- United Stated Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- United States District Court for the District of Maryland
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia Circuit
Community Involvement
- Maryland Commission for Women, Appointed by Governor Larry Hogan
- Past Board President, Executive Alliance
- Past Board Member, United Way of Central Maryland, Past Chair, Women’s Leadership Council
- Member, Tocqueville Society, United Way of Central Maryland
- Past Chair and Board Member, 2-1-1 Maryland, Inc.
Professional Involvement
- Firm Co-Liaison, Harmonie Group
- Harmonie Group Board Member
- Co-Chair, Harmonie Group Diversity Committee
- Past Chair, CLM – Maryland Local Chapter
- Past Chairman, Board of Directors, Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund
- Past Chair, Board of Trustees, Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund
Awards
- Best Lawyers Spring 2017 Women of Influence, Insurance Law
- Named to A.M. Best’s Recommended Insurance Attorneys, 2019
- Selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers, 2007-2025
- Maryland Top 50 Women Lawyers (Maryland Super Lawyers, 2012, 2019)
- Best Lawyers – Lawyer of the Year, Insurance Litigation 2021 and Insurance Law 2012 – Baltimore area
- Named to The Best Lawyers in America Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance, Commercial Litigation 2006-2025
- Named to Maryland’s Legal Elite (Smart CEO magazine, 2005)
- Named a Leading Lady (Smart Woman magazine, 2004)
- Named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women for 2004, 2011 & 2013 (The Daily Record) for outstanding professional, personal and charitable accomplishments.
- Named to “The Daily Record: Circle of Excellence” for becoming a 3 time “Top 100 Women of Maryland” award winner
- Named 2013 “Distinguished Woman Award Winner” by The Girl Scouts of Central Maryland
- Fellow of the Maryland Bar Foundation
- Columnist for the Publication of Independent Insurance Agents of Maryland, Class of 2006
- Greater Baltimore Committee’s Leadership Program
- Named one of the winners in the Daily Records 2010 Leadership In Law Awards
- AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell
- 2015 Washington D.C. and Baltimore Legal Leaders (Insurance Law and Litigation)
Additional Information
- Ms. Lambert is actively involved in the community with women, family and children issues. She enjoys acting as a mentor to younger attorneys and the high school students she coaches in mock trial competitions.
National Published Articles and Presentations (Selected)
- Panelist, American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) and National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), Regional Symposium on ALI Restatement of the Law Liability Insurance
- Author, “Top Ten Things Defense Lawyers Need to Know About Lack of Good Faith Claims”, Maryland Defense Line, A Publication From the Maryland Defense Counsel, Inc., Spring 2017
- Author “Waltzing with Chimeras: The Uneasy Dance between Insureds, the Insurers and Assigned Defense Counsel”, ExecSense eBook, 2012
- Author “How Societal Changes Raise Insurance Issues,” Annual ABA/TIPS Mid-Year Annual Meeting, 2009
- Author “An Ill Wind Blows No Good: The Nuances of Business Interruption Claims,” Business Law Today, March/April 2006
- Author and Instructor, “Under Cover with Insurance Coverage,” MICPEL, 2007
- Author and Instructor, “Maryland’s New First Party Bad Faith/Good Faith Law,” MICPEL, 2007
- Author and Instructor, Insurance Producer Liability (Agent/Broker Liability), MICPEL, 2004
- Author and Instructor, Life And Disability Insurance Claims, MICPEL, 2003
- Author and Instructor, Insurance Institute, MICPEL, 2001, 2004, 1994
- Moderator and Editor, MICPEL Program, Disputes with Insurance Companies and Agents, October 1992
- PMPA: Brand Standards, 2005 Petroleum Marketing Attorney, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2005
- Bullet Proofing Your Client When the Issue is Privilege, ABA Insurance Section, Phoenix, AZ, February 2005
- “The Accountant As Expert Witness,” Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants, October 22, 1998
- “Employee Recovery for Emotional Distress: Where the Realm of Common Law Outrageousness Has Become Elusive for Claimants, Will Workers’
- Compensation Take Them In?” Maryland Bar Journal, May 1993
- “Lessening the Pain of Withdrawal: What an Insurance Company Can Do to Prepare to Withdraw from the Personal Automobile Line of Insurance,” Journal of Insurance Regulation 252, Winter 1992
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