Charlie Gokey

PARTNER
(he/him/his)

Charlie represents workers in ERISA class actions. Prior to joining Engstrom Lee in 2023 as the firm’s first lateral partner, he was a partner at Robins Kaplan LLP, where he regularly litigated ERISA claims and prosecuted large-scale fraud and other corporate malfeasance. He has helped recover more than $150 million on behalf of his clients. Charlie started his career litigating constitutional matters at all levels of the federal judiciary as a fellow at a national civil liberties organization in Washington, DC, before serving as a law clerk in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia. He then entered private practice, working at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan LLP.

  • J.D. magna cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center
    B.A. cum laude, Carleton College

  • Minnesota
    District of Columbia
    California
    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    C.D. Cal.
    N.D. Indiana
    D. Minn.