Everlaw Connect D.C. Speakers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jennifer Ruth is the VP of Customer Success at Everlaw, where she leads the post-sales organization focused on driving customer outcomes, adoption, and long-term value across the Everlaw platform. She is a seasoned customer leadership executive with experience spanning SaaS and technology businesses, including prior senior customer success leadership roles at Optimizely and Adobe, where she led customer success in the Asia-Pacific region.