Everlaw Connect D.C. Agenda
March 24 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Kick off Everlaw Connect D.C. with a continental breakfast alongside your colleagues and peers, followed by opening remarks by Everlaw’s Allison Patrick, Vice President, Public Sector.
Allison Patrick is VP, Public Sector at Everlaw, based in Washington, DC, where she leads the public sector sales organization across federal, state, local, and educational markets. Allison oversees a team of strategic account executives and sales leaders focused on helping government legal teams modernize their discovery and litigation workflows on Everlaw.
March 24 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Learn how to untangle complex email conversations in Everlaw using grouping tools and the Context Panel to search, navigate, and review threads faster and more accurately.
Michelle Beer is a Manager on Everlaw’s User Education team. In her role, she designs learning experiences and resources for Everlaw’s users and has led virtual and in-person training series. She’s passionate about helping users from the legal, government, and corporate organizations get the most out of Everlaw’s platform. Prior to joining Everlaw, Michelle was an adjunct professor in history and published author.
March 24 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
In this interactive session, you’ll practice building content and metadata searches, level up with wildcard and nested queries, and use Search Term Reports to run and analyze multiple keyword searches at once.
Aden Daniel is a User Education Specialist at Everlaw, based in our Washington, D.C. office, where she helps legal professionals and investigators get hands-on with Everlaw through live training, workshops, and interactive programs.
March 24 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Prompt writing is at the heart of effectively using AI tools. Learn tips and tricks for writing prompts across Everlaw’s AI features to ensure consistent, high quality outputs.
Michelle Beer is a Manager on Everlaw’s User Education team. In her role, she designs learning experiences and resources for Everlaw’s users and has led virtual and in-person training series. She’s passionate about helping users from the legal, government, and corporate organizations get the most out of Everlaw’s platform. Prior to joining Everlaw, Michelle was an adjunct professor in history and published author.
March 24 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Join our distinguished panel of judges for a deep look into the intersection of modern litigation technology, AI, and government litigation. This session offers a unique judicial lens on how emerging tools are reshaping the courtroom and what legal professionals must know to navigate this shifting landscape.
Judge Rodriguez is a former Texas Supreme Court Justice and currently sits on the bench as a United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas. Born in San Antonio, Texas, he received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a master’s degree from the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs, a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Texas Law School, and a Master of Laws in Judicial Studies from Duke University, Bolch Judicial Institute. Prior to assuming the bench, he was a partner in the international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski (now known as Norton Rose Fulbright). He was board certified in labor and employment law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General’s Corps and has served on the board of directors of several charitable organizations across Texas.
Judge Allison Goddard was sworn in as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of California in August 2019. She graduated from Boston College in 1993 and received her JD from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2000. Judge Goddard spent the first half of her legal career representing corporate defendants in litigation at Cooley LLP and her own law firm, Jaczko Goddard LLP. In 2011, she shifted her practice to representing plaintiffs in complex and intellectual property litigation. She has tried several cases, including class actions and patent infringement disputes. Judge Goddard speaks regularly on ediscovery and other litigation issues. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the San Diego Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and the Louis M. Welsh Inn of Court.
Judge Young B. Kim is a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Illinois and has served on the bench for the Eastern Division (Chicago) since 2010. He was born in South Korea and his family emigrated to the United States when he was 11 years old. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Loyola University School of Law in Chicago. Before taking the bench, he served as an Assistant Cook County Public Defender, law clerk to District Judge Charles R. Norgle, Sr. of the Northern District of Illinois, an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and an Administrative Judge for the EEOC. As a federal judge he particularly enjoys presiding over citizenship naturalization ceremonies in the ceremonial courtroom where he himself was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1986.
Joshua Harvey is the Director of Public Sector Customer Success at Everlaw, where he leads efforts to help government agencies modernize legal workflows and drive lasting impact. He brings nearly two decades of experience spanning legal practice, teaching, and customer success leadership.
Before joining Everlaw, Joshua spent over seven years at Lex Machina, most recently as Head of Customer Success, where he built and scaled high-performing teams supporting enterprise clients. Earlier in his career, he held client success and consulting roles at LexisNexis and served as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of the Public Defender in Florida. He also taught as an adjunct instructor at Westwood College.
March 24 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Join Max Christoff, Chief Technology Officer at Everlaw, in conversation with senior leaders from federal agencies. Together, they will explore the high-level trends reshaping technology and data management, offering an inside look at how the department is navigating the integration of AI and the demands of a modern, data-driven legal landscape.
Full speakers list to come.
Max Christoff is Everlaw’s Chief Technology Officer, where he leads the company’s technology strategy and engineering execution as Everlaw scales its AI-powered investigation and litigation platform. He brings 25+ years of engineering leadership experience, including 14 years at Google — most recently leading engineering for Chrome — and earlier work helping launch Google Wallet/Pay, with additional leadership experience at Morgan Stanley.
March 24 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
As digital evidence explodes and policy pressure mounts, federal teams are rethinking how they share, secure, and make sense of data. This session brings together perspectives from federal prosecutors, federal defenders, and client agencies to explore managing massive evidence volumes, handling complex handoffs, and moving from ad hoc “data dumps” to secure, collaborative data‑sharing workflows
eLitigation Technology Coordinator, United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Kostantino ‘Dean’ Athanasopoulos, a federal eLitigation Specialist in the U.S. Department of Justice. He has dedicated his career to justice and has a history of innovation, having created his own Litigation Support Unit and implementing new technologies. Dean has been recognized with numerous DOJ and federal agency awards, including the Director’s Award, one of the DOJ’s highest honors, for his contributions to historic jury verdicts. He currently serves as the eLitigation Coordinator for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia.
John Carr is the director of federal programs at Everlaw, where he supports Everlaw’s strategic federal customers, including the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Courts, and U.S. Department of the Interior, and is especially interested in identifying solutions to improve ESI sharing across parties.
In this role, John also helped to stand up the “Everlaw for CJA” program which provides much-needed ediscovery support to Criminal Justice Act Panel attorneys across the country.
Prior to joining Everlaw, John was a senior leadership consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Chief Information Officer’s Innovation Engineering team, where he applied design thinking approaches to several key initiatives across the agency, including ways to improve investigative data sharing.
March 24 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
This working session with Pauline Day (Everlaw) is designed for candid input and practical previews of recently released technology and what’s coming next. Discuss what’s hardest right now — data scale, cross-team coordination, and security constraints — then see how Everlaw is addressing those needs through recent releases and upcoming investments.
Pauline Day is Director of Product, where she leads Everlaw’s product management function. She is committed to delivering a product experience that both transforms workflows and make everyday work more efficient and delightful for users.