“We owe our total existence to Eric Grimm & Co. at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Eric has put in a LOT of work in order to solve our legal battle with Fo[rd] Mo[tor] Co[mpany] . . . .”
-Hans Rekestad, owner and publisher of the Website- classicvolvo.com > (emphasis in original). See Ford Motor Co. v. Greatdomains.Com, Inc., 177 F. Supp. 2d 656 (E.D. Mich. 2001) (featured in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and DETROIT FREE PRESS).
When individuals, businesses, and governmental institutions seek legal counsel, we recognize that they want a lawyer who exhibits exceptional loyalty to clients – who will work tirelessly to protect their interests and to secure justice for them. They want counsel with the experience and knowledge necessary to develop creative, insightful, and realistic solutions to their legal problems. And they want to be represented by someone who will handle every matter – from a small collection case to a multimillion-dollar bet-the-company battle – in an efficient and cost-effective manner. We can deliver the professional quality and service that you expect and deserve, at a fraction of the cost you would incur by hiring a “big firm” on one of the coasts, or in a major city.
Eric C. Grimm
Eric Grimm, a Muskegon native, has extensive experience handling complex commercial, Intellectual property, and litigation matters all over the United States – not only in trial courts, but and also at the appellate level. In addition to regular client representations, Mr. Grimm has dedicated significant pro bono time and attention, over the years, to advocacy of human rights and Internet-related civil liberties issues. He is a member of the Michigan, Texas, and District of Columbia bars.
Mr. Grimm graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as Executive Editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law. Prior to law school, he earned a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, and with University Honors, from the University of Houston, in Houston, Texas. He taught a course in criminal law at the University of Houston, Victoria.
Following law school, Mr. Grimm served as a Briefing Attorney for the Hon. John Cornyn of the Supreme Court of Texas (Judge Cornyn is now a United States Senator), and as a law clerk to the Hon. John Rainey of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Mr. Grimm has served as a featured speaker at annual meetings of the American Bar Association, the Michigan State Bar, the ABA Section on Business Law, and the Computer Law Section of the Michigan Bar. He also has served on speaking panels at non-legal events such as the HOPE conference, a semi-annual gathering of computer security professionals, and the annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) conference sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery.
Mr. Grimm recently was recognized as a fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation.
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
• Supreme Court of the United States.
• First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Puerto Rico).
• Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia).
• Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky).
• United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
• Supreme Court of Texas (Texas State Bar).
• District of Columbia Court of Appeals (D.C. Bar).
• Michigan Supreme Court (Michigan State Bar).
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
• U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
• U.S. Court of International Trade.
Mr. Grimm also has appeared pro hac vice to help clients resolve disputes filed with courts in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Idaho, California, Nevada, and Mississippi.
REPRESENTATIVE CASES
• Wu v. T.W. Wang, Inc., 420 F.3d 641 (6th Cir. 2005) (defamation).
• Kremen v. Cohen, 325 F.3d 1035 (9th Cir. 2003), subsequent decision,
337 F.3d 1024 (9th Cir. 2003) (non-appearing consulting attorney on
9th Circuit briefs, and also author of significant portions of
submission to California Supreme Court opposing certification of
question).
• Kevin Spacey v. Jeffrey Burgar,
207 F. Supp. 2d 1037 (C.D. Cal. 2001) (celebrity name dispute) (also have resolved disputes relating to Humphrey Bogart, Derek Jeter, Bobby Labonte, Terry Labonte, Mariah Carey, and a host of other celebrities).
• Ford Motor Company v. 2600 Enterprises,
177 F. Supp. 2d 661 (E.D. Mi. 2001) (trademark).
• Ford Motor Co. v. Greatdomains.Com, Inc., 177 F. Supp. 2d 656,
61 U.S.P.Q.2d 1718 (E.D. Mich. 2001) (pro bono case as cooperating
counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, that ultimately
resulted in saving the Website < classicvolvo.com >, The site owner,
Hans Rekestad.
• Goss Graphic System, Inc. v. United States, 22 C.I.T. 983,
33 F. Supp. 2d 1082 (Ct. Int’l Trade 1998) (antidumping duties
assessed on Japanese and German imports of newspaper printing
presses).
• Indiana Gas Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.,
951 F. Supp. 797 (N.D. Ind. 1996) (insurance pollution exclusion).
• Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co., No.
A-0051585-95 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. Oct. 29, 1996), 11
Mealey’s Litig. Rep. (Asbestos) No. 20 (Nov. 15, 1996), review
denied, 148 N.J. 460, 690 A.2d 608 (1997) (No. 43,286) (insurance
jurisdiction).
• K&R Industries, Inc. v. Ontel Products Corp., Nos. 2:04-cv-72297-JF-DAS, 2:04-cv-74055-JF-DAS and 2:04-cv-72297-JF-DAS (filed June 21,
2004, Oct. 18, 2004) (major patent and trademark claim against “as
seen on TV” seller of knock-off glass cleaning wand) (settled
favorably).
• J-Rich Clinic, Inc. v. Cosmedic Concepts, Inc., No. 02-74324, No. 03-71750,
2006 WL 2473478 (E.D. Mich. Aug. 25, 2006) (trademark
infringement case against Philosophy, Inc., QVC, Target Stores,
Sephora, and other significant corporate wrong-doers) (settled
favorably and final resolution substantially exceeded client’s initial
objectives).
• Compana, LLC v. Emke, No. 3:03-CV-2372-M, 2004 WL 2058782
(N.D. Tex. Sept. 15, 2004); see also Compana, LLC v. Emke, Nos.
3:05-CV-0285, and 3:06-CV-1416 (N.D. Tex, pending) (on-going
saga to determine whether Internet domain names are property, which
can be retrieved by their rightful owner from a “domainer”);
• Cable News Network, LP, LLLP v. CNNews.com, 2003 WL 152846,
66 U.S.P.Q.2d 1057 (4th Cir. Jan. 23, 2003) (served as cooperating
attorney with Electronic Frontier Foundation, to file amicus
curiae brief in case presenting issue of whether “in rem” jurisdiction
violates constitutional due process).
PUBLICATIONS
Roger E. Warin & Stephen A. Fennell, Anatomy of a Coverage Trial, in Insurance
Coverage for Tobacco and Tobacco-Related Litigation and Liability (Fulcrum ed.
1996) (acknowledged for assistance in preparing outline materials);
John Cornyn & Eric C. Grimm, Recent Developments / DTPA, in STATE BAR OF
TEXAS SEVENTH ANNUAL DTPA / CONSUMER / INSURANCE LAW COURSE (Mark S. McQuality ed. 1994).
More background on Eric Grimm (Courtesy of the University of North Texas and the Federal Trade Commission, who were not given
