Hon. Paul W. Grimm

Paul W. Grimm is the David F. Levi Professor of the Practice of Law and director of the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke University School of Law. From 2012 to 2022, he served as a district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. From 1997 to 2012, he was a magistrate judge in the same court, serving as chief magistrate from 2006 to 2012. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and has served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law and the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. He also has written extensively and taught courses for lawyers and judges in the United States and abroad. Judge Grimm served on the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure from 2009 to 2015, and chaired its discovery subcommittee. He graduated with an AB from the University of California–Davis in 1973. He received his JD magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from the University of New Mexico in 1976, and master of Judicial Studies from Duke University in 2016.