David Horrigan

David Horrigan is Relativity’s discovery counsel and legal education director. The recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), David is an attorney, award-winning journalist, law school guest lecturer, and former e-discovery industry analyst.  He serves also as adjunct professor of law at the Duquesne University Thomas R. Kline School of Law.

A former in-house counsel and reporter and assistant editor at The National Law Journal, David is the author of over 500 articles and reports on legal issues and the author and co-author of law review articles as well as the annual Data Discovery Legal Year in Review. David has been a contributor to Legaltech News for 23 years, and his articles have appeared also in The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, The New York Law Journal, Texas Lawyer, The Washington Examiner, and others, and he has been cited by media, including American Public Media’s Marketplace, TechRepublic, and The Wall Street Journal. A frequent speaker on issues of law and technology, David has been the moderator of the Relativity Fest Judicial Panel since its inception in 2014, and he has been the moderator of the University of Florida Law E-Discovery Conference Judicial Panel since 2018.

David serves on the Global Advisory Board of ACEDS, the Planning Committee of the University of Florida E-Discovery Conference, and the Resource Board of the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ). He holds a juris doctor from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, and he is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia. He is also an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional/US.

• J.D., University of Florida - Fredric G. Levin College of Law