Hi friends. I am excited to come back for Reunion Weekend. I have recently moved from law teaching at the University of Southern California to the University of Colorado. I at work on a new book on racial exploitation in the digital age. I have a home in New Mexico and split time between there and Colorado, all to maximize my time in the beauty and nature of the Southwest. Looking forward to seeing all of you!

After graduation, I spent a year clerking in San Francisco and then practiced white collar criminal defense at Skadden Arps in New York for a number of years. In 2015, I returned to Washington, D.C. to join the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division in the Department of Justice. After several years prosecuting FCPA cases, I now handle appeals for the Fraud Section.

I can't believe it's been 35 years! While I stopped practicing law many years ago, the law - and especially the rule of law - has been a big part of my career, from my work helping former Communist countries transition to democracy after the Berlin Wall fell, to my current role as a school leader and 8th Grade History teacher. My son also got the legal bug, and he is starting at Georgetown this fall! I am excited to reconnect with our classmates, especially those from Section 3.

I can finally make it to a Reunion! I look forward to catching up with friends and to hearing about all of the amazing things that Class of 1990 lawyers have accomplished both personally and professionally!

Since graduating from Georgetown Law in 2015, I have spent the past decade combining law, technology, and public service. I co-founded Filarion, where we build spatial-computing interfaces and AI tools that reduce the cost and complexity of high-stakes litigation. Leading a young company has been an education in itself, and this spring the Silicon Valley Business Journal named me to its 2025 “40 Under 40” list in recognition of our work. I stay connected to Georgetown Law through the Board of Visitors, advising on how generative AI can enrich both the curriculum and the profession. I also serve on Palo Alto’s Utilities Advisory Commission, helping guide policy for California’s only city-owned full-service utility. This fall, I will return to the classroom as an incoming student in Stanford’s Master of Liberal Arts program; after years in startup mode, the chance to study across disciplines feels like a gift. The skills I honed as a student still shape everything I write. I remain grateful to the community that set me on this path and look forward to paying that mentorship forward.

I became a boring corporate lawyer. Excited to catch up and see how everyone's life has progressed.

Charlie Lizza lives in Bucks County, PA with his wife, Sandy. Charlie is a partner at Saul Ewing LLP, Vice Chair of its litigation department and is Chair of its pharmaceutical patent litigation practice in which he represents brand pharmaceutical companies. Charlie serves on the Board of Trustees for Saint Peter’s University and also serves on the Georgetown Law Board.

I enjoyed a successful 41-year legal career prior to retiring in 2016. I appreciate my GULC degree and the many doors it opened for me over the years. It is amazing that our graduation happened 50 years ago!

After retiring, I traveled the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and have continued my interest and involvement with history and genealogy in a volunteer capacity. I am currently secretary for the Lewis and Clark Trail Alliance, the national non-profit partner of the National Park Service supporting their Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. I also am Treasurer for the Humanities Nebraska Foundation and support Humanities programming across the State of Nebraska. Both of these organizations have been challenged during the past year by federal funding cuts that have impacted their missions. In fact, I spent three days in April back in Washington DC lobbying on behalf of the National Humanities Councils. We FAILED! It was only weeks after our lobbying efforts that funding and staffing for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) was drastically cut.

Prior to retiring, I was Public Defender in Lincoln County, Nebraska for 5 years, before becoming a Law Professor and Administrator at the University of Oklahoma College of Law for 20 years. I concluded the final 16 years of my legal career in the General Counsel's Office at Iowa State University where my wife, Dianne, had accepted a position as the Director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics.

Dianne retired in 2018 and we now enjoy retirement living on Beaver Lake - about 20 miles South of Omaha, Nebraska, near the Missouri River. We have two children. Chris and his wife, Andrea, live in Lisbon, Portugal with our two granddaughters, Rosemary and Juniper, where he remotely manages his digital design and communication firm. Beth is a veterinarian and lives in Beaufort, South Carolina, with her husband, Matt.

I am looking forward to the Georgetown Law Class of 1975 50th Reunion Celebration!

KEITH BYSTROM

I am looking forward to our class of 1975 reunion. I have not been to a previous reunion and am interested in meeting classmates from long ago and seeing how the law buildings and law school have evolved. (I have not been to the law school since the late 1970s.)

I've lived and worked in Massachusetts since moving there from Maryland in 1983. I retired from full-time work in 2017 and from part-time teaching in 2021. My career was in public interest law and management in non-profits and government: legal services, public welfare, environmental regulation and enforcement, environmental justice; and in academia. I've also been active as a volunteer, most recently for planning and economic development and environmental protection. Look for me on LinkedIn for more -- and let's talk at the reunion.