Grace Grimes

Grace Grimes is a driven trial attorney who loves the courtroom. Her practice focuses on medical malpractice and catastrophic injury litigation. During her time at Kline & Specter, she has secured significant recoveries including a $14+ million medical malpractice settlement

• a $3+ million premises liability settlement, multiple $3 million medical malpractice settlements
• a $2 million medical malpractice settlement
• a $1.5 million medical malpractice settlement
• and a $1 million chiropractor negligence settlement

Grimes has a particular interest in patient privacy cases. She represented an individual whose sensitive medical information was disseminated via social media after surgery, utilizing e-discovery methods to identify and preserve electronically stored information and enlisting experts in patient privacy, corporate responsibility, social media, and digital forensics. The multi-year case resulted in a confidential settlement. She served as co-counsel representing dozens of people who developed cancer from exposure to ethylene oxide emitted from a sterilization plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where the colorless gas was used to sterilize medical equipment.

Outside work, Grimes volunteers with Philadelphia VIP, a pro bono organization providing free legal services to low-income residents facing housing, family, and income legal threats. She worked as a law clerk at Kline & Specter during law school, providing litigation support and observing trials. She achieved top academic performance, winning "best performance" in six law school courses, including evidence and trial advocacy. She became the inaugural president of her law school's nationally recognized trial team.

As a competitor and president, she won the prestigious Texas Young Lawyers Association regional trial competition in 2021 and 2022, received the best advocate award in 2021, and her team reached the quarterfinalist round nationally in 2021. She competed individually 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 assisted two professors teaching trial advocacy and was a Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project Fellow, teaching constitutional law at Philadelphia Military Academy and coaching students for annual moot court competition.

She earned her bachelor's degree from Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University, where she studied abroad at the University of Ghana, holding an internship at The Ghana Blind Union helping blind and visually impaired students with computer literacy and presentation skills. She also interned with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. Grimes practices law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and has tried cases in both jurisdictions.