Deepak Gupta is the founder of Gupta Wessler LLP, a law firm that focuses on Supreme Court, appellate, and complex litigation on behalf of plaintiffs and public-interest clients. The firm aspires to be a counterweight to the corporate dominance of the Supreme Court and appellate bar.In addition to his practice, Deepak teaches at Harvard Law School, where he is a Lecturer on Law and an instructor in Harvard's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, and was previously a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow. In the past, he has also taught courses on appellate advocacy and public interest advocacy at Georgetown and American universities.Deepak has focused his two-decade legal career on ensuring access to justice for people—particularly for consumers, workers, and communities injured by corporate and governmental wrongdoing. In addition to individual and class plaintiffs, Deepak frequently represents or collaborates with leading plaintiffs' firms, labor unions, nonprofits, state and local governments, and public officials.Deepak regularly argues before the U.S. Supreme Court (including two cases in the current 2024-2025 Term) and has handled cases before all thirteen federal circuits, several state supreme courts, and state and federal trial courts nationwide. He has also been a leading voice in the public debate over forced arbitration and the need for effective protections for consumers and workers, testifying on those issues multiple times before the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Before starting his firm, Deepak was Senior Litigation Counsel and Senior Counsel for Enforcement Strategy at the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Elizabeth Warren's leadership, where he launched the agency's amicus program, defended its regulations, and worked with the Solicitor General’s office on Supreme Court cases. He previously worked for seven years at Public Citizen Litigation Group, where he was founding Director of the Consumer Justice Project and the Alan Morrison Supreme Court Assistance Project Fellow.Deepak is a member of the American Law Institute and the Administrative Conference of the United States and sits on several nonprofit boards, including the Alliance for Justice, the National Consumer Law Center, the Open Markets Institute, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.