Everlaw Connect D.C. Speakers

Kyana Givens is an AFPD in the District of Nevada, she is currently on a Detail to the Northern and Middle Districts of GA, where she leads an initiative on Ai Automation and Strategic Litigation. She also advises trial teams and CJA attorneys on complex criminal cases at the intersection of the Federal Rules of Evidence and emerging technology. Her projects are “Client-Centered, Evidence Focused & Tech Forward”. She brings over 19 years of experience as a trial attorney, having previously served in State and Federal Public Defender Offices in multiple jurisdictions. She also served as an Attorney Advisor at DSO-Training Division and as a TDY at the Office of the Pardon Attorney. She started her trial advocacy career at CJI at Harvard Law School as an Albert M. Sacks Fellow with Charles Ogletree. She is a faculty member at NCDC and programs for State & Federal Defenders. She regularly lectures on trial skills, digital technology in criminal cases, and unconscious bias in jury selection. Kyana Givens is an Alumn of Northeastern University School of Law.

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.

Emily Miller is Chief of the Office of eLitigation for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where she leads complex federal litigation and brings more than two decades of prosecutorial and management experience. Miller previously served as Chief of the Fraud Unit and spent over 16 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. A graduate of the George Washington University Law School and the University of Michigan, Miller is an effective, analytical leader who meets challenges through collaboration and working across disciplines to create innovative solutions.

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.

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.

Gloria Lee is the Chief Legal Officer (CLO) at Everlaw, a cloud-based platform that unlocks the collaborative power of litigation and investigative teams.

As the company’s legal strategist, Gloria advises Everlaw’s executive leaders and Board of Directors to drive business growth while mitigating risk. She leads the legal department and is responsible for all legal, regulatory and privacy issues across the company.
Gloria brings to Everlaw over 25 years of experience as a ground-breaking trial lawyer and in-house counsel, with deep expertise in litigation, regulatory issues, technology and legal operations.

As CLO of Commure, a health-tech unicorn, Gloria oversaw the legal, regulatory, compliance, and security functions, and closed a merger with an imputed value of $6 billion. She also served as General Counsel (GC) at Newsela, an ed-tech unicorn. As Newsela’s first GC, she built the legal function from scratch, executed on a mandate to get the company IPO-ready and helped complete five acquisitions over two years.

Prior to Commure, Gloria served as VP, Deputy GC at Fitbit where she built and led various legal functions over time, helping the company launch more than 20 new products and services, and expand from 60 to more than 100 countries. In addition to successfully defending Fitbit in contentious patent and intellectual property litigation, Gloria was the company’s lead lawyer in Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit, shepherding the deal through rigorous antitrust review. Gloria worked with regulators around the world for nearly 15 months to successfully clear the merger in a climate of intense antitrust scrutiny of Big Tech, while dealing with novel data privacy issues.

Gloria has also held leadership positions at McKesson, a Fortune 10 healthcare company, where she advised on complex and novel legal matters. Prior, Gloria was a trial lawyer with the Oakland City Attorney’s Office, an attorney with the law firm of Morrison & Foerster, and a judicial law clerk for Chief Judge Pallmeyer of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois.

Gloria received her B.A. with Honors from Swarthmore College and her J.D. Magna Cum Laude from the University of Minnesota Law School. She lives in the East Bay with her family and dog. She and her family love to travel, eating their way through countries. Ever the consummate litigation attorney, Gloria is a long time yoga devotee who still struggles to clear her mind.

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.