Marnie Lambert is a litigator focused on toxic tort liability matters. She has extensive experience in multiple civil practice areas and has represented clients for many years in state and federal courts as well as in alternative dispute resolution forums. Marnie has represented asbestos manufacturers and suppliers in personal injury and wrongful death cases and defended insurance companies in coverage and bad faith matters. She has also represented hundreds of investors across the country in securities disputes with their brokerage firms and helped consumers and small businesses obtain recovery for personal injuries, wrongful death, property damage, economic torts, and breaches of contracts. Marnie’s skills include the prosecution and defense of class and mass actions.
Marnie has conducted and managed all phases of litigation from initial client intake through conclusion by settlement, award, or verdict. She has a reputation for a no-nonsense approach to cases and is well-respected by clients, other counsel, mediators, arbitrators, and judges alike. Her proudest moment as an attorney was obtaining the largest wrongful death jury verdict in Franklin County, Ohio after a 17-day trial in which she served as second chair. In that case, there was no pre-trial settlement offer made to her client, a young widower who sued a medical provider for causing his wife’s death during childbirth.
Marnie served a decade on the Board of Directors for the Public Investors Advocate Bar Association (“PIABA”), which provided her with the opportunity to collaborate with and provide input to federal and state governmental agencies and self-regulatory organizations, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Department of Labor, the State of Ohio Division of Securities, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), on regulatory issues. She has also addressed consumer regulatory matters on national professional panels and in interviews with national publications.
Marnie’s involvement in bar and professional associations reflects her commitment to diversity and inclusion. She was appointed to the Ohio State Bar Association’s LGBT Diversity and Inclusion Conference Planning Committee from 2013 to 2018 and served as co-chair in 2016. In 2018, she spoke on a Practising Law Institute panel in New York on diversity, inclusion, and elimination of bias in arbitration and mediation.