Charlie was born in March 1930 in Baltimore to Talbot J. and Maria Thompson Albert. He graduated from Gilman Country School and majored in psychology, belonged to Ivy, and played lacrosse at Princeton. Charlie roomed with Chet Carey, George Hambleton, Fred Obrecht, Conwell Smith, and Dick Tucker.
He and Deborah Dixon Dorsey were married June 19, 1951. After graduation he spent two years in the Army and then entered Harvard Law School, earning his law degree in 1956. Piper & Marbury hired him as an associate in 1956 when the firm had 16 lawyers. At the time Charlie retired as a partner in 1995, it had 370 lawyers. He began riding horses when he was 2 years old and fox hunting at the age of 7. At age 50, he took up golf.
Charlie died Feb. 17, 2015, and is survived by his wife, Louise Brown Albert; children Deborah Gundry, Katherine LaHaise, Charles Albert Jr., and John Albert; stepchildren Marjorie Waxman and David Brown and their families; and his sister, Phoebe Driscoll. He was predeceased by his first wife, Deborah; and by his brother, Talbot Albert III. Services were held at the Church of the Redeemer in Baltimore.