About David Seligman

One of the country's leading civil rights, workers' rights, consumer rights, and antimonopoly lawyers, David Seligman has dedicated his legal career to fighting for regular people against corporate abuse. He is the Executive Director of Towards Justice, a nationally recognized non-profit legal and labor rights organization, and the most progressive candidate in the Colorado Attorney General democratic primary election.

David has seen throughout his legal career how there are two sets of laws in this country: one for the rich and powerful and another for the rest of us. He has brought some of the most important and cutting-edge legal cases in the country, helping working Coloradans take on powerful corporations and the Trump Administration.

He stands up in court for nurses, rideshare drivers, meatpackers, Amazon workers, veterans, teachers, federal employees, grocery workers, renters buried in junk fees from the biggest landlords in the country, and working families drowning in medical debt to massive hospital systems.

In a case that David has been litigating for more than a decade, he and his team recently won in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of thousands locked up at the immigration detention facility in Aurora, taking on the GEO Group, the private prison company that owns it.

Prior to his work at Towards Justice, David was an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, where he helped consumers buried in debt who had been forced to give up their rights in the fine print.

David lives in east Denver with his wife and three daughters, just a few miles from where he grew up. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and served as the Supreme Court Chair of the Harvard Law Review before clerking for appellate and trial level federal judges.

about David's logo

This logo was designed by David’s three daughters and is inspired by his favorite piece of Jewish scripture. Isaiah explains that if you feed the hungry, clothe the naked, protect workers, and break off the yoke of oppression then “your light shall burst forth like the dawn.”

We can find light in the darkness. But the light will not be external to us–we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. If we band together, if we stand shoulder to shoulder, if we fight for one another, we will defeat corporate power, we will transform our politics, we will save our country.