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.

When I think of my GULC experience I envision a springboard to fulfilling aspirations of civic and public service. As a first generation college graduate, and the child of a then single mother that was one of thirteen kids born to farmers in South Carolina, I fed an insatiable appetite for learning by mapping an academic path intended to lead to being the first Black head football coach at Notre Dame. Reality and public service caused that journey to pivot from academia to the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School for an MBA and to capstone at Georgetown Law. Since graduating I have been fortunate to apply my business + law training to launching innovations that created measurable value in government, Fortune 1000, my own small business, and venture backed startup(s). Thank you GULC! All of those experiences contribute to my current mission – making the world a better place through intellectual property rights and supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Currently I am “self-actualizing” through a social impact IP legal tech startup I founded in 2024 (“IPRights4All ® the dba of its parent DC based T-I-L-Group, Benefit Corp.), with a bit of seed funding from the District’s Inclusive Innovation Equity Impact Fund managed by 1863 Ventures. In parallel I am leading a social impact law practice focused on business and IP, founded in 2016 (“Technology-Innovation-Law”). As of 2023 the law entity used a client centric service design to create an estimated $43MM of financial value for 100+ clients. The legal tech entity is working to replicate those results globally by offering IPRights4All ® as an AI / blockchain / Web3 based software as a service solution. I’ve gotta shout out to my biological and chosen family and friends for traveling with me. As the saying goes, “[i]f you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together.” Health and good fortune to all in the GU and GULC Communities, respect to Dean Treanor for his leadership, and best wishes for the next steps in the journey of life.

Hard to believe it has been 35 years! While I am still practicing law as a partner in the employment litigation department at Epstein, Becker & Green, I successfully dissuaded my twin sons from law school despite the strong influence of my wife Ellen (who I met as a summer associate at our first firm and who now works as a Judge in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey) who still finds enjoyment in the law. When not working, I have tried to keep up running, reading (just finished our classmate Walter Pryor's "This Leaves Me Okay: Race, Legacy, and Letters From My Grandmother" which I highly recommend to all of Section Three), and even somehow ended up in a Martin Scorcese movie (but if you blinked you missed me). Looking forward to catching up with everyone, particularly Section 3 and my JJCers!

I came right back to Nebraska after GULC and practiced litigation at Kutak Rock LLP for 19 years. I always wanted to run for office, and I got that opportunity and ran for Nebraska Attorney General in 2014. I ended up in 2nd place in a highly-contested primary. I never thought I would be a judge, but I was confirmed by the Senate to a lifetime federal district court appointment in 2019. I hope to see the Class of 2000 in force at our upcoming 25 year reunion!