David W. Langham has been engaged in the Florida workers’ compensation community since 1991. He has litigated hundreds of cases, including workers’ compensation final hearings, jury trials, and mediations. He has represented individuals, insurance companies, self-insured employers, governments, and some of the largest corporations in America in workers’ compensation, employment law, personal injury, medical malpractice, tort, and contract law. He has taught legal classes at the University of North Florida, Pensacola State College, and the University of West Florida on workers’ compensation, business law, constitutional law, evidence, and legal writing. He has guest lectured at Florida State University College of Law and Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law. For 23 years, he has served as a Florida Judge of Compensation Claims, five years presiding in Pensacola, and over 19 years as Deputy Chief Judge. David has ruled on innumerable issues, entered thousands of orders, and presided in over 750 bench trials. David has delivered thousands of legal lectures. He has been part of many of the American workers’ compensation community's premier organizations, including paragons such as the Workers’ Compensation Institute, the National Association of Workers’ Compensation Judiciary, the Workers’ Compensation Section of The Florida Bar, and several American Inns of Court. He has authored dozens of papers and articles and thousands of blogs. He is the sole author and editor of Floridiana and the Workers’ Compensation Adjudicators (2024); Florida Workers’ Compensation: Its History, Evolution and Function (2023), and The Mock Trial Performance (2022). Judge Langham has been involved with medicine and the law through participation with the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and the American Medical Association.