Grace Grimes

Grace has a particular interest in patient privacy cases. In one such case, Grimes represented an individual whose sensitive medical information was disseminated via social media after surgery. During her investigation and litigation of the case, Grimes utilized various forms of e-discovery to identify, preserve, and collect electronically stored information for use as evidence, and enlisted expert witnesses not just in the realm of patient privacy and corporate responsibility, but also in the areas of social media and digital forensics. The case spanned multiple years and resulted in a confidential settlement.

Grimes was also heavily involved as co-counsel in representing dozens of people who developed cancer from exposure to a chemical, ethylene oxide, emitted from a sterilization plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where the colorless gas was used to sterilize medical equipment.

Outside of work, Grimes is active with Philadelphia VIP, a pro bono group that provides free legal services to low-income residents who face legal threats to their housing, family and income.

Grimes attended law school at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University. During law school, she also worked at Kline & Specter as a law clerk, providing litigation support and shadowing attorneys at trials. She was a top student in law school – she won “best performance” in six of her law school courses, including evidence and trial advocacy, which she now uses every day in her practice.

Grimes became the first-ever president of her nationally recognized trial team at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University. As a competitor and inaugural president of the trial team, she won the prestigious Texas Young Lawyers Association's regional trial competition in 2021 and 2022 and the best advocate award in 2021. Her team also was a quarterfinalist in the national competition in 2021. As an individual competitor, Grimes competed in the 2022 Top Gun competition, an invitation-only contest for the nation's 16 best individual mock trial advocates.

As a law student, Grimes was an assistant to two law school professors teaching trial advocacy and she was a Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project Fellow instructing a course in constitutional law to high school students at the Philadelphia Military Academy, where she also coached students for the annual moot court competition.

Grimes earned her bachelor’s degree at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University. While there, she also studied abroad at the University of Ghana, where she held an internship at The Ghana Blind Union, helping blind and visually impaired students improve computer literacy and presentation skills.

She also held an internship with the Defender Association of Philadelphia, which provides legal services to 70 percent of people arrested on criminal charges in the city.

Grimes practices law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and has tried cases in both jurisdictions.

 

Grace Grimes In The News:

Pa. School, AI Cos. Sued Over Deepfakes Of Female Students, Law360, 6/15/2026