Kevin Lamb's practice focuses on regulatory and complex commercial litigation and appellate matters. He has handled matters before the US Supreme Court, state supreme courts, federal courts of appeals and federal district courts in a wide variety of substantive areas, including administrative and constitutional law, antitrust, ERISA, the False Claims Act, insurance law, health care law, intellectual property, and Native American law. He has represented state officials and universities in First Amendment litigation, as well as a diverse array of individuals, corporations and associations in litigation against federal departments and agencies, including the US Departments of Defense, Labor, the Interior, and Health and Human Services, as well as the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the US Agency for International Development. He has counseled clients on state and federal regulation of a range of industries, including tribal gaming, health care, life insurance and financial services. He also maintains an active pro bono practice in the areas of criminal justice and antidiscrimination law, with a focus on LGBT rights.

Mr. Lamb joined the firm following clerkships with the Honorable Guido Calabresi of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Janet C. Hall of the US District Court for the District of Connecticut. While in law school, Mr. Lamb interned in the Office of Legal Policy at the US Department of Justice and served as a law clerk to the Honorable András Sajó of the European Court of Human Rights. Prior to pursuing his law degree, Mr. Lamb earned a PhD in English from Cornell University and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University.

Recognition

  • Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for his administrative and regulatory law practice in 2023 and 2024

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Yale Law School, 2013

      Editor-in-Chief, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities
    • PhD, English, Cornell University

    • BA, Mathematics, Russian and Plan II Liberal Arts, University of Texas

      Highest Honors with Special Honors in Plan II Phi Beta Kappa
  • Admissions

    • District of Columbia

    • Connecticut

    • US Supreme Court

    • US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

    • US District Court for the District of Columbia

    • US District Court for the District of Connecticut

    • US District Court for the District of Maryland

    • US District Court for the Southern District of New York

    • US District Court for the Western District of Michigan

  • Clerkships

    • The Hon. Guido Calabresi, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2014 - 2015

    • The Hon. Janet C. Hall, US District Court for the District of Connecticut, 2013 - 2014

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