Grant Goerke

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.