Brian Hershman

Brian Hershman is a partner at Jones Day focusing on civil litigation and white-collar criminal defense in state and federal courts. He has experience handling witnesses and defendants in state and federal criminal proceedings and has represented numerous clients in all aspects of complex civil litigation. Prior to joining Jones Day, Brian was an Assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California of Los Angeles, where he was the deputy chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights section and deputy chief of the Public Corruption and Government Frauds section. As a federal prosecutor, Brian maintained an unblemished trial record, obtaining guilty verdicts against all defendants in all matters that proceeded to trial. He successfully prosecuted cases involving health care fraud, defense procurement fraud, telemarketing fraud, mail and wire fraud, tax fraud, and corruption by government officials, among other crimes. Mr. Hershman received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School where he was the recipient of the Potter Steward Prize and Harlan Fiske Stone Prize.