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 the international law firm of 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.