Mike Oliver & Kim Grimsley Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for 2025 

by | Aug 15, 2024 | Firm Matters

Oliver & Grimsley, LLC is pleased to announce that Mike Oliver and Kim Grimsley are being recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.  In addition, Kim Grimsley has been named the 2025 Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” for Copyright Law in Baltimore.

Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has been acclaimed as the definitive guide to legal excellence.  To be featured, lawyers are nominated and critiqued by currently recognized lawyers on the caliber of their work and analyzed accordingly. The “Lawyer of the Year” accolade is a singular honor, awarded to only one lawyer in each practice area within designated metropolitan areas. This distinction is based on particularly high voting averages received during peer review assessments and reflects a lawyer’s exceptional reputation among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

Mike Oliver has been consistently recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® since 2006. This year, he is being recognized in the fields of Copyright Law, Information Technology Law, Trade Secrets Law, and Trademark Law.  In addition, there are several years since 2011 in which Mike was named as Best Lawyer’s® “Lawyer of the Year” in a number of these fields.  Mike has over 30 years of experience in corporate, business, and intellectual property law, and his background as a computer programmer has been invaluable in serving clients in the software and technology sectors.

Kim Grimsley has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for the last five years. She is being recognized this year in the fields of Copyright Law and Trademark Law; and she has been named the 2025 Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” for Copyright Law in Baltimore.  With over 20 years of experience in intellectual property law, Kim has enjoyed working with clients ranging from startups to publicly traded companies in building and protecting their intellectual property, both in the United States and internationally.

Oliver & Grimsley extends congratulations to Kim and Mike for their continued excellence and dedication in their fields.

Mike Oliver & Kim Grimsley recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for 2024.

by | Aug 21, 2023 | Firm Matters

Oliver & Grimsley, LLC is proud and honored to announce that Mike Oliver and Kim Grimsley have been recognized in the 30th edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for 2024. Best Lawyers is an international lawyer ranking and referring source. To be featured, lawyers are nominated, critiqued by currently recognized lawyers on the caliber of their work, and analyzed accordingly.

Mike Oliver has been recognized in this publication consecutively since 2006 – he is being recognized in the fields of Copyright Law, Information Technology Law, Trade Secrets Law, and Trademark Law. Mike has been practicing corporate, business and intellectual property law for over 30 years. His knowledge as a computer programmer has been a valuable asset for those clients in the software and technology industry.

Kim Grimsley has been recognized in this publication for the past 3 years for her professional excellence by her peers – she is being recognized in the fields of Copyright Law and Trademark Law. Kim was also recently recognized in the 8th annual edition of Best Lawyers® 2023 “Women in the Law” Spring Business Edition for Copyright Law and Trademark Law in Baltimore, and she has been recognized in this publication since its 6th annual edition in 2021. Kim has been practicing intellectual property law for over 20 years, and she has enjoyed working with clients – from start-up businesses to publicly traded companies in all industries – in building and protecting their intellectual property in the United States and worldwide.

Everyone at Oliver & Grimsley would like to congratulate Kim and Mike on their continued hard work and excellence!

Celebrating our 10th Anniversary!

by | May 1, 2023 | Firm Matters

Ten years ago today Kim and I arrived at our new temporary offices to start the firm. On our first anniversary I did a short retrospective of that 1st year. I do not recall having any thoughts of how long or even if we would be around in 5 or 10 years – it was more just surviving day to day back then.

A lot has happened over the years but we have been blessed that our core team has remained in tact and we have been able to hire Jen to help Kim and her growing Trademark practice thrive. We would not have made it 10 years without Larry, Karri, Tina and Jen with us, and also Lisa, Melissa, Adam and Pamela – all who helped us along the way.

We also would not have come this far without our clients. We are very thankful of the trust our clients put in us, many of whom have been with us from the start. We strive every day to provide a great work environment for our staff, and great personal, professional, efficient and knowledgeable legal service to our clients.

While our practice is very busy and at least I still take it day by day, with 10 years behind us, we can now look forward to another 10 years!

Best regards, Mike

Kim Grimsley recognized in Best Lawyers 2021 “Women in the Law” Edition

by | Jun 9, 2021 | Firm Matters, In the News

The sixth annual “Women in the Law” Business Edition of The Best Lawyers in America released June 4th, 2021 and lists Oliver & Grimsley’s own Kim Grimsley as one of the four named women in IP in the Baltimore area. The publication features female attorneys from across the United States in all practice areas that are honored with the Best Lawyer distinction. To achieve such distinction, lawyers are nominated by their peers and then judged by region and practice area. 

Kim Grimsley has over 20 years of experience in intellectual property matters, with trademark clients from across the globe. In 2013, she opened Oliver & Grimsley, LLC with partner Mike Oliver. Kim was recently honored in the 27th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, where Oliver & Grimsley, LLC was also featured as Regional Tier 1 ranking for Baltimore in Copyright, Information Technology, and Trademark Law and a National Tier 3 ranking in the 2021 U.S.News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” for Information Technology Law.

Everyone at Oliver & Grimsley would like to congratulate Kim on her achievement and look forward to her continuing to excel in the future.

7th Anniversary amidst the COVID pandemic

by | May 1, 2020 | Firm Matters

This is our Firm’s 7th anniversary. Like so many people who are celebrating birthdays, wedding anniversaries and other significant events during the COVID pandemic, we are all working remotely, apart, and unable to do any activity in close proximity to each other. Luckily for us, we and our families, and all of our clients (and their families) to our best knowledge, are healthy. Not everyone is so lucky. The pandemic has a lot of people down, and for sure, it is really hard on front line health care workers, first responders, and regular workers who are just doing their jobs in tough circumstances – like working at grocery stores – not to mention all of their families who risk a lot more contact with the virus. Indeed, our staff have family members serving in these vital roles. So this year our firm just wants to say thanks to all of the people out there who are working so hard to minimize the impact of the virus here in Maryland, and risking their own health and health of their families. We appreciate your work, and hope when this subsides that you can take some time off, and physically and mentally recover.