Paul W. Grimm serves as a District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. He sits at the Greenbelt, Maryland courthouse located near Washington D.C. He was appointed to the Court on December 10, 2012. Previously, he was appointed to the Court as a Magistrate Judge in February 1997 and served as Chief Magistrate Judge from 2006 through 2012. In September, 2009 the Chief Justice of the United States appointed Judge Grimm to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure where he served until September, 2015 as the chair of the Discovery Subcommittee. Judge Grimm is a member of the American Law Institute, and has been an adjunct professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law and the University of Maryland School of Law, where he taught courses on evidence and discovery, and he has written extensively on both topics. Judge Grimm received his BA from the University of California, Davis, his JD from the University of New Mexico, and his LLM from Duke University. Judge Grimm served both on active duty and in the Army Reserve as a Judge Advocate General’s Corps officer, and retired in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

9:45am - 10:30am - PLENARY 2: It's Not Your Grandparents' Evidence: Admitting (or Excluding) Electronic Evidence