Zachary Lundgren
Associate
Overview
Zachary Lundgren is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's Washington, D.C., office. Mr. Lundgren focuses his practice on a variety of litigation matters, including complex commercial litigation disputes and challenges to administrative agency actions.
Mr. Lundgren's experience spans a broad range of substantive and legal issues, including commercial disputes, class action defense, military housing habitability claims, corporate governance disputes, product liability disputes, the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the Medicare Act, agency rulemaking and adjudication procedures, healthcare reimbursement regulations, medical device regulations, oil and gas rights, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) regulations, real estate development and zoning issues, defamation and fraud claims, and secured transactions.
In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Lundgren maintains an active pro bono practice, providing legal guidance to low-income individuals and nonprofit organizations in the Mid-Atlantic Region and beyond. His pro bono experience includes matters involving asylum and withholding of removal claims, breach of contract claims, defamation claims and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) claims.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Lundgren clerked for the Honorable Mark E. Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. He was involved with bench and jury trials in criminal and civil cases, including multiple multidistrict litigation bellwether trials. As a law clerk, Mr. Lundgren worked on diverse matters ranging from class actions, to Section 1983 claims, to significant voting rights and First Amendment cases. Before his clerkship, Mr. Lundgren gained practical litigation experience as a litigator at a plaintiffs' firm.
While in law school, Mr. Lundgren served as the executive articles editor for the Georgia Law Review. He also served as a research assistant to Professor Dan T. Coenen, performing research on constitutional issues, as well as editing Professor Coenen's articles and his book, Principles of Constitutional Structure (West Academic, Concise Hornbook Series 2022).
Representative Experience
- Defending a privatized military housing operator in putative class action and related lawsuits facing allegations of mold exposure and lead-based paint exposure brought by residents on U.S. military bases
- Representing a privatized military housing operator in responding to a subpoena issued by a federal agency
- Representing a large hospital system in an Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and Medicare Act challenge to final agency action by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) related to medical resident reimbursement
- Representing a medical device manufacturer through the CMS Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code and payment rate assignment process, resulting in a favorable code determination
- Representing oil and gas trade associations in the Gulf of Mexico that are navigating issues raised by various Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) policy statements, rules and regulations; submitting comment letters to the agency during the rulemaking process
- Representing a large pharmaceutical company in product liability multi-district litigation raising failure to warn, design defect, negligence and breach of warranty claims
- Representing an international nonprofit organization in a lawsuit related to an internal governance dispute
- Representing a U.S. military defense contractor in lawsuit against another defense contractor involving breach of contract, trade secret misappropriation and defamation claims
- Representing a real estate developer in a land use and zoning appeal before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, resulting in a favorable determination allowing development to go forward
- Representing a family raising asylum and withholding of removal claims on the basis of past persecution before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Representing a nonprofit organization in a lawsuit against another nonprofit organization addressing breach of contract, defamation, negligence and false light claims
- Representing a media organization in a lawsuit against the federal government arising out of the government's response to the organization's FOIA request
Credentials
- University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., cum laude
- Emory University, B.A., Philosophy
- District of Columbia
- Georgia
- Maryland
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
- Executive Board Member of the Year, Georgia Law Review, 2020
- Runner-Up, Best Note, Georgia Law Review, 2019
- Allen Post Professorship Scholar, University of Georgia School of Law, 2017-2020