Shalom Brilliant
U.S. Department of Justice

Shalom Brilliant is a Senior Trial Counsel in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He received a B.A. degree in history from Yeshiva University in 1969, an M.A. in modern European history from New York University in 1971, and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1975. He joined the Civil Division under the Attorney General’s Honors Program in 1975. He returned to New York in 1977, and worked as an associate at Schoengold & Sporn, a small firm that specialized in stockholder class actions and derivative suits. In 1978, Mr. Brilliant returned to the Civil Division’s Federal Programs Branch. In 1989 Mr. Brilliant joined the Commercial Litigation Branch, National Courts Section where he has defended the United States in multi-plaintiff civilian pay cases, as well as litigation involving government contracts and a variety of other matters, before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and other courts.