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Professor Grimes spent much of his legal career as a civil litigator involved in a myriad of areas including employment law, environmental law, medical malpractice, personal injury, and trade secrets. He also provided advice to clients on copyright protections, trademark registrations, trade secrets, and the development of prophylactic measures to protect intellectual property assets.

Before entering the practice of law, Professor Grimes acted as an academic administrator both in the United States and for an American College located in England. Beyond his role as an academic administrator, Professor Grimes taught at the college level in the areas of political philosophy, political science, sociology, and ethics. At Pierce Law, Professor Grimes teaches Trademarks, Graduate Moot Court, Remedies, and Graduate Legal Skills, and has previously taught Remedies and Unfair Trade Practices. His outside teaching experience includes providing day long courses in law and ethics to health care professionals.

When not teaching, nor involved in his administrative duties, Professor Grimes writes poetry, studies Eastern philosophy, and reads literature and history. He maintains an abiding interest in world music and in classical western music, particularly the works of Gustav Mahler and other composers of Mahler's era. He also takes long walks, and in the right season stands in awe of the terrible beauty of barren trees.

"I believe that the purpose of legal education involves more than honing a person's ability to handle tools for legal combat. Rather, legal education involves preparing students to be able to act out of compassion for the other sojourners who inhabit this planet. Bringing together students from around the world gives Pierce Law an extraordinary opportunity to expand every student's experience of compassion in ways that will live with them after they leave the school."

"Broadening the experience of compassion, however, applies equally to everyone who works here: students, professors, administrators, and the staff. I have noticed in other academic institutions that staff do not often get the recognition they deserve for the contributions they make to the life of the community, and particularly to the lives of those who study and profess; nor are they often recognized for the compassion they foster through their day to day efforts to keep things afloat. Fortunately, this is not true at Pierce Law. "

"Here, my friends in maintenance, those in the secretarial staff, the staff in the business office and the bookstore, those in the registrar's office, those in the computer support services, the graduate programs office, those in the Dean's offices, the receptionists, the staff in the library, and all the others who make Pierce Law hum, know their value and know that they are valued by the entire community, not only for what they contribute but for who they are. It is this recognition of their genuine worth that makes the school's dedication to the highest standards of ethics all the more compelling and real. Needless to add, I am very pleased to be part of this community."