Mr. Lambert is the Regional Manager of Cashin Spinelli & Ferretti, LLC’s Northeast U.S. office. Mr. Lambert has more than 30 years of experience in the surety industry as a consultant, an in-house surety claims professional for two national surety companies and as a lawyer in private practice. Over this time, he has either directly analyzed or supervised the handling by others of thousands of payment bond claims and more than one hundred performance bond defaults throughout the country. Among the services Mr. Lambert provides in addition to administering and evaluating claims are addressing performance bond defaults, developing costs to complete work, preparing re-let packages, monitoring completion contractors, preparing payment applications and negotiating settlements involving complex disputes.

Mr. Lambert has served as an expert witness on claims and projects from the East Coast of the United States to Puerto Rico, to Washington state and Hawaii. Mr. Lambert has authored or edited several publications and he has spoken at more than two dozen surety conferences. Prior to the experience noted above, Mr. Lambert served several years in the United States Army as an officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps and as a lawyer in private practice.

Education: Western New England College School of Law; Springfield, MA – Juris Doctor, Georgetown University; Washington, D.C. – AB, History