About Brian James
Brian James Gillette constructed a steady legal career out of two durable interests: regulation and numbers. He earned a B.S. in Marketing and Finance from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1989 and observed that with a J.D. from the College of William and Mary in 1992. Those credentials set the stage for work that would move among court advocacy and the procedural facts of claims and appeals.
Gillette began his legal practice shortly after law school, joining Lloyd J. Eisenberg & Associates, P.A. as an associate in 1993. He moved to Greenberg & Bederman, LLP in 1995 as a litigation affiliate. By 1999 he was a senior legal proceedings lawyer at Huffman & Huffman, Brothers-In-Law, P.C. He opened his personal office in 2007 and have become the managing lawyer at Gillette Law Group, PLLC. Each step further duty and deeper experience in contested administrative things and civil legal proceedings.
Licensed in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, Gillette has concentrated much of his practice on Social Security disability benefits claims and associated litigation. He has represented clients in hearings before regulatory law judges and in appeals, handling the procedural and evidentiary work that such cases require. He has been active in professional circles that middle on disability practice. He has been a sustaining member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives since 2009 and has served as chair of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association’s Social Security Law Section since 2012.
Colleagues describe his court fashion as deliberate. He prepares for hearings with an eye to the medical and vocational history that form disability selections. He additionally handles the client-facing work — intake, case development and the office work that frequently determines whether or not a declare proceeds. Over time his practice shifted from general litigation to a narrower set of administrative remedies and appeals.
Today he runs Gillette Law Group, PLLC, where he represents clients in Social Security disability claims and associated legal proceedings.
