Charlie Lizza is a partner in the Litigation Department and Co-Chair of the Life Sciences Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in complex commercial, patent and product liability cases. He currently serves as New Jersey litigation counsel in more than a dozen patent cases for several major pharmaceutical companies.
Mr. Lizza has represented a major tobacco manufacturer in all of its products liability litigation in New Jersey, including class action litigation, and has handled a wide range of commercial litigation cases in the U.S. Federal Courts. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third and Ninth Circuits. In 1992, Mr. Lizza was appointed by Chief Judge Charles L. Brieant to serve as a mediator in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York's mediation program. He has mediated approximately ten cases in that program. Mr. Lizza currently serves as Chairman of the New Jersey Supreme Court's Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law and as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court's Professional Responsibility Rules Committee.
In the area of public service, Mr. Lizza has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Covenant House New York and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for St. Peter's Prep in Jersey City. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Covenant House New York and as counsel to the Heart Gallery of New Jersey. In 2007, he was honored with the Good Scout Award from the Patriots' Path Council, where he currently serves as a member of its Executive Board. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Briant Park Olmstead Conservancy.
Prior to joining Saul Ewing, Mr. Lizza was a partner for more than 15 years with the New York-based firm LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP (now, Dewey & LeBoeuf). Prior to that, he was an associate at Shearman & Sterling and a Law Clerk to Chief Judge David N. Edelstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
NJ Supreme Court Appointments
- Chairman, Supreme Court of New Jersey Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law, Member, 2002 to present
- Supreme Court of New Jersey Professional Responsibility Rules Committee, 2008 to present
- Supreme Court of New Jersey Committee on Model Civil Jury Charges, 2004-2006
Memberships and Affiliations
- Federal Mediator, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Adjunct Professor of Law, Rutgers University School of Law, 1985-1986
- Director, Covenant House New York, 1995 to present, Chairman, 1998-2003
- Trustee, St. Peter’s Prep, 1994-2004, Chairman, 1999-2004
- Trustee, Briant Park Olmstead Conservancy
- Executive Board, Patriots’ Path Council, B.S.A.
- 2007 Good Scout Award, Patriots’ Path Council