Charlie Spies

Charlie Spies has been providing strategic political law counsel at the highest levels in Washington D.C. and globally for over two decades.   Along with advising corporate and trade association clients on federal and state election law and non-profit organization compliance, he has represented multiple Presidential candidates, US Senators, Governors, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, the House Majority Leader, and the RNC, NRSC, NRCC, RGA, and RAGA on strategic campaign finance, ethics, and First Amendment & political litigation matters.  He guides clients through the variety of challenges that arise when politics, the government, law, and public policy meet, and was honored by the RNLA as the Republican Lawyer of the Year in 2023.  He is consistently listed as a top national political law attorney in Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America for Government Relations, Washington Super Lawyer, Washingtonian Top Lawyer, and was also on the Politico 50 list of “Thinkers, Doers and Visionaries Transforming American Politics.”

Charlie worked as Counsel to the Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, and before moving to global law firms he spent almost a decade working within national political organizations and campaigns, ranging from serving as election law counsel to the Republican National Committee to working as Chief Financial Officer and Counsel for a Presidential campaign, where he developed and managed the national campaign’s budget and systems for legal compliance with the Federal Election Commission, IRS, and various state regulations. Using his experience in the political sphere, Charlie co-founded and served as counsel to the pioneering conservative super PAC, Restore Our Future.  In the 2024 election cycle he served as counsel to super PACs that spent over $500 million to support President Trump and the Republican majority in Congress.

Charlie can be seen speaking on political and election law issues on a number of networks including Fox News, CNN, Fox Business Network, and various national and local television and radio programs. He’s also published numerous articles and commentaries on various legal issues in national journals and newspapers. He was a Fellow at and is now on the Board of the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service; has lectured at the U.S. Law Institute, Georgetown University Law Center, and the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law; spoken at Yale and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics; been featured on an ABA Administrative Law Division panel; testified before Joint Committees of Congress, the FEC, state boards of election; and participated in working groups for the OAS Unit for the Promotion of Democracy.