Richard Clabaugh
Richard Clabaugh is a dedicated language services professional with over 15 years with a focus on legal and financial translation, interpreting and editorial services in all areas of law and finance.
His work as a lawyer-linguist began while working for 4 years as a patent litigator with the sole German office of an international IP firm, where he founded and lead its translation department and a freelance staff of over 30 linguists.
Richard successfully managed the Accuracy LLC as a full-service language services firm for over 11 years as its managing director.
He now provides his present services as Accuracy Legal and Financial Language Services (Accuracy) and continues to focus on best achieving his client`s intended results through his work as a lawyer-linguist.
| 2017 - present | Freelance lawyer-linguist, specialist translator, interpreter, and instructor of legal English as Legal & Financial Language Services |
| 2020 | Guest lecturer in academic writing and analytical reasoning, Heilbronn University |
| 2006 - 2017 | Managing Director Accuracy LLC. Management of all aspects of a full-service language services company, translator, interpreter German > English |
| 2011 | Guest lecturer for commercial law and scientific writing, Heilbronn University |
| 2004 | LL.M., European Industrial Property Law, magna cum laude. Master thesis topic: "The American and European treatment of computer-implemented inventions.” |
| 2003 - 2006 | Associate Foreign Attorney at Law, focus on intellectual property with an emphasis on patent litigation; Head of Translation, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2002 - 2003 | DAAD scholar in German Law, Universities of Tübingen and Düsseldorf |
| 2001 - 2002 | Postbaccalaurate Studies of Computer Science, Oregon State University |
| 2001 | Admitted to the practice of law, Attorney at Law (Oregon) |
| 2000 | Doctor of Law (JD), University of Oregon |
| 1997 - 2000 | Study of US-American Law, Phil Knight School of Law, University of Oregon |
| 1995 | Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy and Political Theory, University of California Berkeley |
| 1991 - 1995 | Studies of Philosophy, Political Theory and German Studies, University of California Berkeley |