Kathleen D. Lambert

Kathleen D. Lambert, a native of south Louisiana and a 1989 graduate of the LSU-Hebert Law Center, has a broad legal background with nearly 30 years experience in litigation and general practice. Her diverse areas of practice have included Insurance Defense, Products Liability Defense, Toxic Tort/Environmental Defense, Transportation Law, Admiralty/Maritime, Contracts, Construction Law, Collections, General Business/Corporate, Immigration (Business, Family, Asylum and Removal/Deportation), Successions and Estates, Medical Malpractice (Plaintiff and Defense) Personal Injury, Workers Compensation, and General Litigation.

Ms. Lambert’s current practice focuses on defense of construction defect matters and personal injury matters.

Ms. Lambert has handled matters through all phases of dispute and dispute resolution, beginning with pre-suit negotiation, pleadings, discovery, mediation, trial or arbitration, and appeal. Ms. Lambert has an AV Rated rating from Martindale Hubbell peer-review system, which is the highest rating available for an attorney.

Classes, Seminars, Presentations

International Issues in Family Law, LSBA/Louisiana Judicial College Joint Summer School, San Destin, Florida, June 5, 2013

Ensuring Immigration Competence After Padilla v. Kentucky, LSBA Immigration Seminar, March 31, 2011

Immigration Primer for the Criminal Defense Attorney, Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, December 2, 2010

Primer for EB-5 Visas, Presentation to New Orleans City Council, January 12, 2010

Immigration Primer for the Family Law Practitioner, May 13, 2005

Employment-Based Immigrant Visas and H-1Bs, UNO International Student Center, UNO, New Orleans, LA

Panelist, Law and Policy Issues Relating to Central Americans, American Bar Association, International Law Section, Immigration and Nationality Law Committee, November 5, 1999

Work Permits and Employment Based Visas, Louisiana State Bar Association, International Law Section, May 1, 1998

Published Works