Frederick (Rick) W. Claybrook, Jr.
inquiries@claybrooklaw.com
Phone: +1 202.250.3833
700 Sixth St., NW, Ste. 430
Washington, D.C. 20001
Until his retirement from his partnership in Crowell & Moring LLP, one of the country's premier government contracts firms, Rick Claybrook specialized in bid protest and claims litigation. In his 40 years as a practitioner, he has successfully brought protests of procurements worth up to and over $1 billion; has never lost a protest defense; and, on multiple occasions, has litigated claims to judgment or settlement in excess of $100 million. He has appeared at all levels of the federal courts, as well as in state courts and in domestic and international arbitrations. His experience includes hundreds of trial days and hundreds of oral arguments. He has also written extensively in government contracts academic journals.
Throughout the 40+ years of his career, Mr. Claybrook has been active in pro bono matters involving religious liberty and life issues. His experiences in this area have been broad and varied, from hearings before a zoning board to defend a small house church to filing multiple amicus briefs in the United States Supreme Court and other state and federal appellate and trial courts. For over a decade, he has been a member of the supervising committee of the Center for Law and Religious Freedom, which is the advocacy arm of the Christian Legal Society. Many other denominations, religious advocacy organizations, and religious leaders have joined briefs he has principally authored.
For the 2017-18 Supreme Court term, an independent study by SCOTUSblog of the over 800 amicus briefs filed on the merits evaluated one of Mr. Claybrook's briefs as the ninth-best of the term and, overall, ranked Mr. Claybrook as the third-best brief writer and Claybrook LLC as the second-best amicus firm. SCOTUSblog used BriefCatch to evaluate the briefs for "flow, plain English, punchiness, reading happiness, and sentence length" and concluded,
The number of amicus briefs filed each term far outweighs the number of briefs filed by direct parties. These amicus groups vie against one another for the court's attention, because the resources for evaluating these briefs are limited. High-quality writing remains one of the best ways for groups to get the court's attention, especially when the group does not have the institutional presence of the United States.
Claybrook LLC is open to handling cases, and especially religious freedom and pro-life work, on contingent fee and other alternative fee bases. Of course, it reserves the right to determine which matters it will accept for representation. For such potential representations, please use the contacts page to contact us. We will respond if we believe representation may be feasible.