Charles (“Chuck”) Wolf has been teaching Employee Benefits Law at the University of Chicago Law School since 2013. He retired in December 2016 from Vedder Price, PC, a Chicago-based law firm where he practiced labor, employment and employee benefits law for 41 years, representing companies and multiemployer benefit funds. He currently serves as a member of the ERISA Advisory Council, created by Section 512 of ERISA to advise the Secretary of Labor on various policy matters. Chuck was lead counsel in several major employee benefits cases and had extensive experience in plan administration, labor relations, litigation and arbitration and transactions involving all aspects of human resources law. He was a senior editor of the Bloomberg BNA treatise, Employee Benefits Law, and was co-author of the Federal Publications treatise, ERISA Claims and Litigation. He also wrote numerous articles on labor and employee benefits topics. Chuck was co-chair of the law firm for 9 years and held a variety of firm leadership roles. He also was co-chair of the American Bar Association, Labor Section Employee Benefits Committee from 2009 to 2011 and is a member and former Director of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.

He also is president of the Walter Mander Foundation, a family foundation which supports Chicago community development and sustainable and local food and agriculture projects, among other things. The Mander Foundation is a member of Fresh Taste, a Chicago-area funder initiative which seeks to accelerate change toward a more robust, sustainable and just food system. Chuck is on the steering committee. He also is a member of the Sustainable and Local Food Investment Group. He received his AB from Brown University in 1972 and his JD from the University of Chicago in 1975.