Perspectiva General

Grant Goerke helps businesses of all sizes proactively adapt to legal changes and defend claims in class, collective, and single-plaintiff lawsuits. As a member of Littler’s national Wage and Hour Practice Group, Grant has defended employers in several collective actions that challenge industry-wide practices and individual lawsuits involving payments to and classifications of specific workers.

Grant concentrates in Minnesota employment issues that continue to progress and require fresh perspectives. He focuses in the state’s wage and hour laws, including the unique aspects of Minnesota’s Fair Labor Standards Act, Payment of Wages Act, and wage theft laws.

Grant is also a go-to defense attorney for issues related to Minnesota’s Drug and Alcohol Testing in the Workplace Act, including the recreational cannabis laws passed in 2023 and the preceding hemp-derived THC and medical cannabis laws. He has presented to a variety of client, industry and legal groups regarding the impact of these laws in Minnesota and beyond.

Before joining Littler, Grant was an insurance defense lawyer at a law firm in Minneapolis, where he also worked on employment issues, including employer responses to Minnesota’s medical cannabis law. Grant previously clerked at the Minnesota Court of Appeals for the Hon. Judges Michelle A. Larkin, Jill Flaskamp Hallbrooks, Kevin G. Ross, and Carol Hooten. During law school, he was a member of the William Mitchell Law Review.

Grant has also worked as a pro bono attorney with the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and grassroots democracy organizations.

Afiliaciones Profesionales y Comunitarias

Member

Minnesota State Bar Association

Reconocimiento

Named, Ones to Watch

The Best Lawyers in America®

2022-2024

Named, North Star Lawyer

MSBA

2018

Speaking Engagements

Risks and Strategies for Employers as Minnesota Expands Marijuana Access

Twin Cities Society for Human Resource Management – 2023 Legal Summit, Minneapolis, MN

February 2023

THC Legalization and the Impacts on the Workplace

Southwest Human Resource Association, Marshall, MN

January 2023

2022 Midwest Regional Employer Conference

Minneapolis, MN

November 3, 2022

Marijuana and the Minnesota Workplace

Minnesota Bar Association

October 31, 2022

2021 Upper Midwest Virtual Regional Employer Conference

Minneapolis, MN

October 20, 2021

Marijuana and the Workplace

Minneapolis, MN

December 5, 2019

Tough Terminations in Five Steps: A Panel Discussion

Nonprofit Insurance Trust Employment Practices Seminar, Eagan, MN

September 2018

Crime & Management: Handling Employees’ Criminal Charges Before and After Hiring

Nonprofit Insurance Trust Employment Practices Seminar, Eagan, MN

June 2017

Educación

  • J.D., William Mitchell College of Law, 2013
  • B.A., University of St. Thomas, 2010

Admisión de la barra

Minnesota

Cortes

  • U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Mississippi
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi
  • U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska
  • U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota