Andrew Bruch - Translator



Andrew Bruch

213 Woodburn Road

Raleigh, NC 27605

Tel: (919) 604-4154

E-mail: bruchandrew@

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Freelance Translator / Interpreter, Brooklyn, NY; Washington, DC; Raleigh, NC August 1996 - Present

□ Translate French and German documents.

□ Whispered and consecutive French interpretation.

□ Research source material and translate legal and technical documents, including contracts, terms of reference and technical specifications, court pleadings, financial reports, process instructions, patent applications, leases, concessions, mergers, and other documents relating to transnational civil and criminal proceedings in Europe, Africa, and North America. Provided French interpretation services for insurance cases, joint venture & franchising activities, and lobbying.

□ Fields: Law, Insurance, Medicine, Pharmacy, Mechanical Engineering, Telecommunications

□ Software: MS Office, SDL/Trados 2009, Adobe Framemaker 7.2, GIMP 2.2 image processing

□ Up to 5k words/day. Rate: $0.10/word

Robertson Immigration Law Firm, Raleigh, NC April 2010 – August 2010 and April 2011 to present

□ Process O, E and H1B visa candidates

North Carolina Court of Appeals, Hon. Robert C. Hunter, Raleigh, NC December 2010 – April 2011

□ Drafted opinions and memos for civil and criminal cases, cite checked final drafts.

Taibi Kornbluth Law Firm, Durham, NC April 2010 – December 2010

□ General litigation research. Provided memo writing and cite checking.

Research Assistant to Walker Blakey, Professor Emeritus, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC April 2010 – August 2010

□ Updated annotated edition of the North Carolina Rules of Evidence. Updated older article on hearsay and expert testimony.

Legal Research for WakeUp Wake County, Raleigh, NC June 2009 – Present

□ Researched legal strategies to be pursued by the city and citizens' groups to protect the urban watershed. Wrote FOIAs and conducted documentary research in preparation for a suit alleging infringements of the Clean Water Act and the N.C. Administrative Code.

Research Assistant to Professor Eric Muller, Chapel Hill, NC May 2009 – August 2009

□ Researched original and archived images and texts to tell the story of the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II for inclusion in a display at the Heart Mountain Visitor’s Center in Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Responsible for an initial cull of several thousand images, letters, and film sources

Office Manager / Canvasser Clean Water Action Washington, DC

August 2002 – August 2003

Project Manager / Technical Editor / Translator Paris, France

IPAC Traductions (Industrie Pharmaceutique Acceuil Conseil)

December 1994 – July 1996

□ Client/translator interface, edited, proofread, and transcribed English translations of medical and pharmaceutical documents

DEGREES & BAR ADMISSIONS

North Carolina Bar Member September, 2011

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC 2008 – 2011

□ Juris Doctor

University of California, Irvine, CA 1992 – 1994

□ Master of Arts in French Literature

□ Second Language, German

Michigan State University, Honors College, East Lansing, MI 1988 – 1992

□ Bachelor of Arts in French Literature

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