Charles M. Dyke
Partner

Practice Areas

Experience

Chuck Dyke is a litigation partner in the firm’s San Francisco office with a practice concentration in complex business disputes and ERISA litigation. He is recognized as a “Northern California Super Lawyer” in the area of Commercial Litigation.

Chuck has represented entities and individuals in shareholder rights litigation, ERISA suits, and cases involving claims of trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition under federal and state law (including consumer class litigation) and business torts.  He has taken both jury and bench trials to decision, and served as successful lead trial counsel in a significant pension plan termination case.

Chuck has handled or participated in a number of appeals, including in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Circuits and the Supreme Court in ERISA matters, and in the California Court of Appeal in commercial disputes.  In 2008, he filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller on behalf of a group of professors of linguistics addressing the grammar and 18th-century-usage of the language of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  He also filed an amicus brief in the Illinois Supreme Court addressing the constitutionality of the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.  In 2009, he filed an amicus brief in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in NRA v. City of Chicago addressing whether the Second Amendment is incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment and therefore applicable to state and local governments.

Chuck has been recognized as a "Super Lawyer" by the publishers of the Northern California Super Lawyers magazine for 2009. Inclusion in Super Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey.

Admissions

Chuck is admitted to practice in California, Illinois, and the District of Columbia, and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. courts of appeals for the Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth circuits, and the U.S. district courts for the Central, Eastern, and Northern districts of California and the Northern District of Illinois.

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M.
DePaul University College of Law, J.D. (Managing Editor, DePaul Law Review)
University of Maryland, B.S.

Affiliations

Bar Association of San Francisco
American Bar Association