Deepak Gupta

Deepak Gupta is the founding principal of Gupta Wessler PLLC, a national appellate litigation boutique based in Washington, DC. He specializes in Supreme Court and appellate litigation on behalf of plaintiffs, with an emphasis on class actions, consumers’ and workers’ rights, and constitutional law. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at both Georgetown and American universities, teaching courses on public interest and appellate advocacy.

Deepak has briefed or argued cases on a wide range of issues before the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appellate and district courts nationwide, and seven state supreme courts.  He argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion (2011), a landmark case at the intersection of arbitration, preemption and class actions that has been described by the Washington Post as “one of the court’s most important on consumer rights in years” and by the Federalist Society as “one of the most controversial Supreme Court decisions in many years.” Most recently, in February 2013, he argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of the plaintiffs in McBurney v. Young, a pending constitutional challenge to Virginia’s bar on nonresidents’ right to access public records.

Before leaving government to start his own firm, Deepak served as Senior Litigation Counsel and Senior Counsel for Enforcement Strategy at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau during the new federal agency’s historic founding in 2011-2012. As the first appellate litigator hired under the leadership of Professor Elizabeth Warren, he was instrumental in launching the agency’s amicus program, defending its regulations in court, and working with the Solicitor General’s office on Supreme Court matters. His duties also included providing advice to top officials on legal issues including preemption, arbitration, and administrative and constitutional law.

For seven years previously, Deepak was an attorney at Public Citizen, where he founded and directed the organization’s Consumer Justice Project,  collaborating with advocates nationwide on class actions and appeals.