David Horrigan

About

The recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) and the 2025 Mattie Bell Davis Award from the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ), David Horrigan is Relativity’s discovery counsel and legal education director. An attorney, award-winning journalist, law school guest lecturer, and former e-discovery and information governance industry analyst, David serves also as adjunct professor of law at Duquesne University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law.

A former in-house counsel and reporter and assistant editor at The National Law Journal, David’s 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 quoted by The Wall Street Journal, American Public Media’s Marketplace, TechRepublic, and publications of the law schools of Yale, Northwestern, Emory, and others. He is the author of the annual Data Discovery Legal Year in Review.

David serves on the Resource Board of the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ), the Planning Committee of the University of Florida Law E-Discovery Conference, the Global Advisory Board of the Association of
Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), and the Advisory Board of the MIT Computational Law Report.

David holds a juris doctor from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He is licensed to practice law in Washington, D.C, and he is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) by the IAPP.