Laura Lothman Lambert
How Judge Lambert rules, drawn from 3 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Lambert
Laura Lothman Lambert was appointed as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Florida in November 2021. She graduated from Davidson College in 2001 and the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2007.
Judge Lambert's practices and standing orders
The court's website lists no individual practices or standing orders of Judge Lambert's own (checked October 8, 2026), so the court's local rules and general orders are the place to look (court page ↗).
Standing orders for every case in this court
Orders the court applies to all of its cases, whichever judge has them, as published on the court's website (checked October 10, 2026).
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“ORDER granting doc. 12 Defendant's Unopposed Motion for Entry of Judgment with Remand. The Clerk of Court is directed to enter judgment reversing and remanding the case pursuant to sentence four of 42 U.S.C. 405(g).”
“ORDER granting doc. 16 Plaintiff's Unopposed Motion for Award of EAJA Fees. The Clerk of Court is directed to enter judgment in favor of plaintiff and against defendant for attorney's fees in the amount of $7,797.74 and costs in the amount of $405 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d).”
“ORDER dismissing this action with prejudice. The Clerk of the Court is directed to terminate all pending motions and close this case.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median motion-to-ruling time: 9 days (N = 3).
- The reviewed caseload is dominated by criminal complaints and initial appearances handled in the magistrate-duty rotation; those matters usually terminate within days and do not produce merits-motion rulings.
- The civil component consists chiefly of Social Security disability appeals decided with the parties' consent, along with occasional diversity matters such as the Fortes uninsured-motorist case, which settled at mediation.
- In this sample, the Social Security appeals ran about three and a half to five months from filing to termination, while the settled insurance case ran about eight months.
How long civil cases take in this court
For the whole of U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, not for Judge Lambert: median time from filing to disposition of the civil cases the court closed in the 12 months ending September 30, 2025, as reported by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
| Cases | Median time | |
|---|---|---|
| All civil cases closed | 6,896 | 5.5 months |
| Closed with no court action | 49 | 3.5 months |
| Closed before pretrial | 6,492 | 5.2 months |
| Closed during or after pretrial | 319 | 14.7 months |
| Closed during trial | 36 | 24.2 months |
| 12 months ending | Cases closed | Median time |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 6,896 | 5.5 months |
| Sep 2024 | 7,115 | 5.6 months |
| Sep 2023 | 6,777 | 5.5 months |
| Sep 2022 | 6,781 | 6.7 months |
| Sep 2021 | 6,749 | 6.2 months |
| Sep 2020 | 6,392 | 6.2 months |
| Sep 2019 | 6,830 | 5.7 months |
The table leaves out prisoner petitions, land condemnations, deportation reviews, recovery of overpayments and enforcement of judgments, and reports no median for fewer than 10 cases. A district that closed a large multidistrict litigation in the period shows very large counts and long medians for that year. Source: Table C-5, U.S. District Courts (spreadsheet).
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