About Us
Gupta Wessler PLLC is a national litigation boutique. We handle high-stakes controversies in the U.S. Supreme Court and courts across the country, approaching each matter with a fresh perspective, a bird’s-eye view of the law, and a strategic sense of how to frame the issues for success. The firm maintains offices in Washington, DC, Boston, and San Francisco.
We’re specialists in the art of advocacy: Our practice is focused on Supreme Court, appellate, and complex litigation. But we’re generalists when it comes to subject matter: We brief and argue a broad range of legal issues, from civil rights and economic justice to administrative law and constitutional issues of every stripe.
In all of our efforts, we work closely with leading trial counsel, scholars, policy experts, and advocacy groups to help shape the law in ways that enhance justice and improve people’s lives.
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Firm History. The firm was founded in the spring of 2012 by Deepak Gupta, following his stint as the first appellate lawyer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he launched the new agency’s amicus program, defended its regulations in court, and worked with the Office of the Solicitor General on Supreme Court cases. Deepak previously spent seven years at Public Citizen Litigation Group, where his practice focused on Supreme Court and appellate litigation with an emphasis on access-to-justice issues.
In the fall of 2012, Jonathan Taylor joined the firm as its first associate, having worked with Deepak as a fellow at Public Citizen and following his federal appellate clerkship. Jon is now a principal of the firm. Greg Beck, a former colleague of Deepak’s at Public Citizen, also joined the firm in 2012, after it which it was known as Gupta Beck PLLC. After a hiatus of several years, Greg now practices as Of Counsel to the firm.
In the summer of 2015, the firm was renamed Gupta Wessler PLLC when Matt Wessler joined the firm as a named principal following six years at Public Justice, where he spearheaded that organization’s focus on Supreme Court litigation. Matt previously practiced at the Washington law firm of Williams & Connolly LLP and as a member of Obama for America’s election litigation team, where he handled important litigation on behalf of the Obama presidential campaign.
In 2015, the firm also created a one-year litigation fellowship for new attorneys. The first fellow, Neil Sawhney, now an associate in the San Francisco office, joined in the fall of 2015, between his judicial clerkships with Marsha Berzon of the Ninth Circuit and Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court. Another recent fellow, Linnet Davis-Stermitz, now an associate in the D.C. office, joined the firm following clerkships with Judge Michelle Friedland of the Ninth Circuit and Judge Alison Nathan of the Southern District of New York. Each year, the firm also regularly hires two or three exceptional law students as summer associates. Detailed information on the fellowship and summer programs is available here.
In 2020, the firm announced its new San Francisco office, headed by principal Jennifer Bennett, an accomplished Supreme Court and appellate advocate who joined the firm from Public Justice. Former fellow Neil Sawhney, a former California Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit law clerk, joined Jenn as an associate in the San Francisco office.
Around the same time, the firm also announced that Peter Romer-Friedman joined to firm to launch a new civil rights and class actions practice designed to complement and expand on the firm’s core appellate work. Shortly thereafter, Rob Friedman joined the firm as an associate in the civil rights and class action practice.
