Morgan A. Lambert
Biography
Morgan is an Associate in the firm’s Norfolk office where her practice focuses on trust and estate matters and transfer and fiduciary taxation. Her estate planning work includes thinking through the complex intersection of family succession and tax planning to implement thoughtful and efficient estate plans for her clients. In addition to the planning component of trusts and estates, Morgan also assists clients and their families in the probate and administration of estates and the administration, modification, and termination of trusts. Morgan’s estate litigation work involves fiduciary disputes and beneficiary representation.
Recognition & Honors
- Virginia Beach Commercial Litigation; Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, 2023, 2025
- Top 40 Under 40, Inside Business, 2024
- Top Lawyers; CoVaBIZ Magazine, 2021, 2023-2024
- Virginia’s Legal Elite; Virginia Business Magazine, 2020-2024
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Mary Jane Hall and the Honorable Jerrauld C. Jones; Norfolk Circuit Court, 2018-2019
Associations
- Hilltop YMCA; Board Member
- Norfolk Portsmouth Bar Association; Young Lawyers Section, Committee Member
Education
- Creighton University; B.A., summa cum laude, 2015
- William & Mary Law School; J.D., 2018
Reported opinions and published articles
- Professionalism Benefits Attorneys, Their Clients, and the Legal Community; The Bencher, Mar 1, 2019
- Fed. Cir. Addresses Whether Appeal Seeking Hearing From Board Is Moot After Hearing Takes Place; Veterans Law Journal, Jan 1, 2018
Press & Publications
- 51 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2024
- Inside Business 2024 Top Forty Under 40: Morgan Lambert, Kaufman & Canoles
- 55 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America 2025, 7 Named “Lawyer of the Year,” and 13 Named “Ones to Watch”
- 36 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named as Top Lawyers 2024 in CoVaBIZ Magazine
- 53 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2023
- Morgan A. Lambert Joins Kaufman & Canoles