CHAIR AND MANAGING PARTNER
Leadership
Grant S. Palmer serves as Blank Rome’s firm-wide Chair and Managing Partner. In this role, Grant oversees the firm’s strategic initiatives, with a strong focus on developing and promoting Blank Rome’s commitment to client service, diversity and inclusion, strategic growth, pro bono and community service, innovation, and fostering a culture of collaboration and teamwork.
Drawing upon his life-long commitment to supporting the community and ensuring that everyone has equal access to legal representation, Grant founded and then chaired the firm’s Pro Bono Committee for 18 years and was involved in the implementation of mandatory pro bono requirements in 2014, which resulted in record-breaking participation and hours.
Practice
Grant previously served as firm-wide Litigation Department Chair and is a nationally recognized litigator with significant trial experience in state and federal courts throughout the country. He is fiercely competitive when it comes to protecting his clients’ rights and interests. Business clients have turned to Grant for more than 30 years when they need a strategically aggressive litigator who will prevail at trial while providing sound and pragmatic business advice.
Grant has vast experience in a wide range of areas, including class actions, cybersecurity, corporate and shareholder litigation, employment, restrictive covenants, patent and intellectual property, fraud, unfair trade practices, personal injury, products liability, trade secrets, and many others.