Paul C. Lambert

Paul C. Lambert (born 1928,[1] New York City) was the United States Ambassador to Ecuador from 1990–1992.[2] He submitted his resignation in December 1991 saying Ecuador is “a country plagued by corruption and excessive bureaucracy.”[3]

Background

Lambert graduated from Yale University (A.B., 1950) before continuing his education at Harvard Law School (J.D. 1953). He served in the US Army (G-2) after graduating from law school (from 1953-1955). Lambert began working as a lawyer in 1955 with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy in New York City. From 1966–1990, Lambert was a partner of Breed, Abbott & Morgan leaving when he became a United States Ambassador.[2]

Lambert joined the law firm McLaughlin & Stern as a partner in early 2004, focusing on estate planning, estate and trust administration, and Surrogate's Court litigation. During his legal career, Lambert “has been involved in some of the most significant estate and trust litigations of the last several decades, including Matter of Rothko, Estate of J. Seward Johnson, Matter of Stillman and Matter of Rockefeller.”[4]

Long active in New York State politics, Lambert was a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Republican Party from 1983-1990 and served as a Steering Committee and Finance Committee member of the 1988 George Bush for President election campaign. He served as a member New York Delegation to the Republican National Conventions in 1984, 1988, and 1992.[2]

Lambert has been an active supporter of Yale. He has contributed in many ways including serving as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Association of Yale Alumni, as a Director of the Yale Alumni Fund, and as a member of the Yale Development Board, the Honorary Degree Committee, and the University Council. Because of his efforts, he was awarded the Yale Medal in 1988.[2]

gollark: I decided to try and look at the DokuWiki code responsible for the spate of errors I've had in PHP 8, and ææææ all is apioform.
gollark: Maybe you meant per minute.
gollark: Half an hour is in fact 1800 seconds.
gollark: This worries me.
gollark: Also, the only APL in my distro's package repos is "GNU APL" which is apparently bad.

References
  1. "Paul C. Lambert (1928–)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  2. "Paul C. Lambert". Council of American Ambassadors. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  3. "U.S. Ambassador Lambert Quits Post in Ecuador". Los Angeles Times. December 12, 1991. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  4. "Paul C. Lambert - Trusts and Estates - New York, NY". McLaughlin & Stern. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.