Paul W. Grimm

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Paul W. Grimm
Grimm in 2018
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
In office
December 11, 2022 – December 30, 2022
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
In office
December 6, 2012 – December 11, 2022
Appointed byBarack Obama
Preceded byBenson Everett Legg
Succeeded byMatthew J. Maddox
Chief Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
In office
2006 – December 6, 2012
Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
In office
1997 – December 6, 2012
Personal details
Born (1951-12-26) December 26, 1951 (age 72)
Army Achievement Medal

Paul William Grimm (born December 26, 1951) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

Education

Judge Grimm attended the

magna cum laude, from the University of New Mexico School of Law.[1]

Grimm received his Master of Laws from Duke University School of Law.[2]

Career

Born in

Fort Bliss, Texas. In 1980, as a civilian, he joined the State's Attorney's Office for Baltimore County, Maryland and shortly thereafter became an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Maryland. From 1984 until 1997, Judge Grimm worked in private practice handling commercial litigation until his appointment as United States magistrate judge. Judge Grimm has written numerous books and articles on subjects including electronic discovery, civil procedure, evidence and trial practice and lectures frequently on these topics.[3] He also teaches courses on these subjects at the University of Maryland School of Law and the University of Baltimore School of Law.[1]

Federal judicial service

On February 16, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Grimm to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.[4] He would replace Judge Benson Everett Legg who has announced that he is taking senior status effective June 8, 2012. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on his nomination on May 9, 2012, and reported his nomination to the floor on June 7, 2012. The Senate confirmed his nomination on December 3, 2012, by a 92–1 vote, with Senator Roy Blunt casting the sole no vote.[5] He received his commission on December 6, 2012. He assumed senior status on December 11, 2022. Grimm retired from active service on December 30, 2022.[1]

Awards

During law school, Grimm was awarded the Order of Coif

Army Achievement Medal. His other awards include:[6]

  • Distinguished Service Award, Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers (1998)
  • Professional Legal Excellence Award for the Advancement of Professional Competence Maryland Bar Foundation (2001)
  • Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Member of the Year,
    University of Maryland School of Law
    (2002 and 2006)
  • Maryland Leadership in Law Award, Daily Record (2004)

Notable cases

Grimm's rulings on cases in which electronic discovery concerns were involved have advanced understanding of issues related to

electronically stored information (ESI) in civil matters.[7]

  • Hopson v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (2005).
    Federal Rule of Evidence (FRE) 502, which was designed to bring more certainty and uniformity to the law of voluntary waivers of the attorney–client privilege or work product protections in both federal and state courts. (When outlining the purposes of the new rule in the notes to FRE 502, the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules explicitly cited the Hopson opinion and Judge Grimm's concerns.[9]
    )
  • Lorraine v. Markel (2007).[10][11] In a case regarding insurance coverage for a damaged boat, Judge Grimm wrote a 52-page opinion in which he articulated the evidentiary issues to be addressed in proving whether electronic data should be admitted into evidence at trial. A July 2008 article in the ABA Journal
    characterized Grimm as a "star" for breaking ground in a previously unaddressed aspect of evidentiary law.
  • In Victor Stanley, Inc. v. Creative Pipe Inc. (2008),[12] Judge Grimm found counsel had waived the attorney–client privilege as to a group of inadvertently produced documents because, inter alia, counsel failed to satisfactorily explain their review processes. He advised that counsel should be able to provide information regarding the search method used, reasons for its selection, the qualifications of the people who designed the search, the steps taken to assess reliability and appropriateness of the search method and the quality of its implementation. In his comments, Judge Grimm discussed indicia that a reasonable search had been performed, noting that the TREC Legal Track project (a subgroup of the Text Retrieval Conference) would be a way to "…support an argument that the party employing them performed a reasonable ESI search…".
  • In Mancia v. Mayflower Textile Services Co. (2008),
    Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(g) (certification by counsel of discovery disclosures, requests, responses or objections, formed after reasonable inquiry) and an overview of the federal rules and other law that mandate cooperation among parties in discovery, dovetailing the views presented in the Sedona Conference Cooperation Proclamation. [improper synthesis?
    ]

References

  1. ^ a b c Paul W. Grimm at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
  2. ^ "Paul W. Grimm, District Judge | District of Maryland | United States District Court". Mdd.uscourts.gov. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Judge Paul W. Grimm". September 23, 2006. Archived from the original on September 23, 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. National Archives
    .
  5. ^ "On the Nomination (Confirmation Paul William Grimm, of MD, to be U.S. District Judge)". December 3, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  6. ^ "Paul W. Grimm, U.S. Magistrate Judge (Maryland)". Msa.md.gov. September 29, 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  7. ^ "Newest Issue". ABA Journal. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  8. ^ "Hopson v City Council of Baltimore" (PDF). Archived from the original on June 17, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. ^ "Rule 502. Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product; Limitations on Waiver | Federal Rules of Evidence | LII / Legal Information Institute". Law.cornell.edu. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  10. ^ "Lorraine v. Markel" (PDF). June 17, 2011. Archived from the original on June 17, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  11. ^ Jason Krause (July 2008). "Rockin' Out the E-Law". ABA Journal. Archived from the original on September 10, 2009. Retrieved August 20, 2009.
  12. ^ "Stanley v Creative Pipe" (PDF). Archived from the original on September 16, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  13. ^ "Mancia v. Mayflower Textile Servs. Co., et al" (PDF). June 17, 2011. Archived from the original on June 17, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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