Charles A. Storke
      Director

Charlie has over 30 years of experience in the employee benefits field, and specializes in representing regional, state-wide and local multiemployer pension and health and welfare plans, including the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust Fund, the largest Taft-Hartley trust in the United States.

Charlie has participated in the development of managed health care programs for multiemployer plans and has assisted those plans in evaluating the legal risks associated with the implementation of aggressive cost-containment programs. He has advised Taft-Hartley trustees on fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transaction issues involved in a variety of single customer and pooled investment arrangements. He has represented trustees in connection with government audits and federal court litigation under ERISA, and has represented Taft-Hartley pension plans in defending challenges to the enrolled actuary's determination of unfunded vested benefits liabilities in connection with employer withdrawal liability assessments under the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980.

Charlie has participated extensively in the legislative and regulatory process at the federal and state levels to develop coherent and consistent procedures for administering family law court orders directed to pension and welfare plans, including drafting of major portions of the California statute on joinder of employee benefit plans in family law proceedings and development of the California Judicial Council model qualified domestic relations order for spousal and child support.

Charlie is a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel and was named one of Northern California’s “Super Lawyers” in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 by Law & Politics magazine.

Education

• J. D.,1970
  Hastings College of the Law
  University of California, San Francisco
  Class Valedictorian
  Order of the Coif; Editor-in Chief, Hastings Law Journal
  
• Bachelor of Arts in History,1967
  University of California, Santa Barbara
  

Professional Career

• 1996 - Present
  Director (Of Counsel prior to 1998)
  Trucker Huss
  San Francisco, California
• 1970 - 1996
  Associate & Partner
  Pillsbury Madison & Sutro
  San Francisco, California
  

Professional Licenses and Affiliations

• Member, The State Bar of California
• Member, Bar Association of San Francisco
• Member, American Bar Association (member of Employee Benefits Committee for the Section of Taxation)
• Member, Western Pension & Benefits Conference
• Member, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
• Fellow, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel