Deepak Gupta (attorney)


Deepak Gupta is an American attorney, known for representing consumers, workers, and other public interest clients in Supreme Court and appellate cases and constitutional, class action and other types of complex litigation. Law360 called him “one of the emerging giants of the appellate and the Supreme Court bar,” a “heavy hitter,” and a “principled” and “incredibly talented lawyer.”
Gupta is the only lawyer in private practice named to the "Supreme Court shortlist of possible nominees in the next Democratic administration" issued by the progressive organization Demand Justice.
Among other causes, Gupta is noted for representing plaintiffs in several cases against President Donald Trump and his administration.

Early life and career

Gupta is an alumnus of Georgetown Law, and also studied Sanskrit at the University of Oxford and philosophy at Fordham University. He currently teaches as a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he was also a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow, and is a former Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law and American University's Washington College of Law. Before entering private practice, he spent two years as a senior official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shortly after it was established under the leadership of Senator Elizabeth Warren. After leaving the CFPB, he established the Washington law firm now known as Gupta Wessler in 2012, which was joined by partner Matthew Wessler in 2015. He previously worked for seven years as a staff attorney, director of the Consumer Justice Project, and Supreme Court Fellow at Public Citizen Litigation Group, and before that, as judicial law clerk and an intern at the Voting Rights Section of the United States Department of Justice, the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and serves on the boards of several progressive advocacy organizations and academic research institutes, including the policy advisory board of the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware.

Notable cases