Member
Patricia McHugh Lambert
“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 national class 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
- Co-Chair, Harmonie Group First Party Property Committee
- Officer, 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, 2007-2023
- 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, 2024
- Named to The Best Lawyers in America Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance, Commercial Litigation 2006-2024
- 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
AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell
Super Lawyers
A.M. Best’s Insurance Attorneys
Best Lawyers
Insurance Law
LCA Fellow
Patricia McHugh Lambert
Member
Practice Areas:
Commercial Litigation General Litigation Insurance Insurance Defense Business Bankruptcy and Creditors’ RightsArticles:
- Rebalancing and why you need to do it as a way to avoid making mistakes
- Gaps in Coverage: Emotional Damages, Household Exclusions, Defamation and ATVs
- From Bare Feet to Shoes: Risks and Loss Control in a Hybrid World
- The Concept of Failure in the Field of Insurance
- Duty to Defend in Maryland
- Cleaning Out My Overflowing Basket: Recent and Important Maryland Insurance Cases
- PK Law Member Patricia McHugh Lambert Named Baltimore “Lawyer of the Year” for Litigation – Insurance Law
- Fall Law: Avoiding Leaf Litigation
- Maryland Regulatory Review: September 2020
- Public Service in Private Practice
- Waiting for New Year’s Eve: Recommendations for Dealing with the Rest of 2020
- Maryland Regulatory and Insurance Updates During the COVID-19 Crisis (June 4, 2020)
- COVID-19: Checklist For Insurance Related Issues
- Maryland Regulatory Update Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis
- Maryland Regulatory Update Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis
- Maryland Insurance Administration Bulletins Relating To The COVID-19 Crisis – Updates
- Maryland Insurance Administration Bulletins Relating to the COVID-19 Crisis – Update
- Building Our Legacy By Mentoring
- Purdue Pharma, Pills, and Pot: The Need for Insurers to Have a Plan
- Liability For Mass Shootings: Coverage Issues
- How Will States Respond to The Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance?
- Non-Binary Driver’s Licenses: What does it mean for insurers in Maryland?
- A Primer on Controversy: Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance
- 2019 Maryland Legislation of Interest to Insurers
- Travel and Cannabis Edibles
- Maryland’s Travel Insurance Laws Align Closely With NAIC Travel Insurance Model
- Five Questions with Patricia McHugh-Lambert, Member, PK Law
- Chasing History In The New Year
- Named Perils Coverage For Mass Shootings
- Litigation Financing: 10 Tips For Claims Executives
- Planning For The Best In The New Year
- Sex, Porn, and Spoofs: Maryland Aims At Protecting Against Harassment In The Information Age
- On the First Day of a First Party Claim: What a Claims Professional Should Know about Maryland Claims
- SO YOU RECEIVED A KNOCK ON THE DOOR…
- Corporate Depositions: The Wrong Time to Answer in the Form of a Question
- What’s New In Federal Flood Case Decisions?
- Mushrooming Claims: Recognizing When Simple Claims Threaten to Expand Beyond What is Expected
- Love Me Tender: Maryland’s Requirement that Insurers Pay Pretender Defense Costs
- Deciding Not To Look Away: Ethics v. Compliance
- Beware: Claims Investigations May Not Be Protected From Disclosure In Maryland
- Blunt Talk about Cannabis and Insurance
- Statutory Duties to consider in Underwriting (including some that deal with animals)
- Who Will Take Care of Your Pet After Your Death?
- Maryland Legislation Update
- Top 10 Things Defense Lawyers Need to Know About Lack of Good Faith Claims
- The New Fire in the Warehouse
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