Marnie C. Lambert is a partner in the Orange County office of Lewis Brisbois. She focuses on general liability litigation and represents legal entities of all types and sizes, individuals, and homeowner/community associations. Marnie has significant experience in all aspects of defending insurers and their policyholders. She has represented clients in a broad variety of matters from inception through resolution by mediation, trial, and arbitration. Marnie's areas of focus during her career have included insurance law, consumer advocacy, and securities arbitration. She has handled complex actions in state and federal courts, including consumer class actions. Marnie's cases have involved claims of insurance bad faith, fraud, negligence, defamation, breach of contract, wrongful death, products liability, property damages, bodily injury, professional liability, unfair business practices, violations of consumer protection laws, invasion of privacy, and violation of HIPAA Rules.

Professional Presentations

• Panelist: Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias in Arbitration and Mediation (Practicing Law Institute, 2018, New York, New York).
• Panelist: Hot Topics and Future Trends in Securities Arbitration 2018 (Practicing Law Institute, 2017, New York, New York).

Admissions

• State Bar Admissions
  • California
  • Ohio
• United States District Courts
  • United States District Court for the Central District of California
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of California
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of California
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Associations

• Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association ("PIABA")
  • President (2016-2017)
  • Executive Vice President/President Elect (2015-2016)
  • Treasurer (2014-2015)
  • Director (2012-Present)
  • Executive Committee Member (2015-2017)
  • Annual Meeting Program Committee Co-Chair (2014-2015)
  • Membership Committee Chair (2013-2014)
• Ohio State Bar Association
  • LGBT Diversity and Inclusion Conference Planning Committee Appointee (2013-2018) and Co-Chair (2015-2016)
  • Litigation Section Appointee (2005-2012).

Education

Pepperdine University School of Law

Juris Doctor, 1992

• Recipient of inaugural Advocates for Public Interest Law Grant.

Miami University

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, 1989

• Recipient of Lucille Crowell Cooks Scholar Leader Scholarship (1987-1988).