Hannah Kieschnick
415.573.0336 | 235 Montgomery St, Suite 629, San Francisco, CA 94104
Hannah Kieschnick is Counsel at Gupta Wessler LLP. She works out of the firm’s San Francisco office and litigates complex public interest and plaintiff-side cases across the country. Hannah has presented oral argument in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Eighth Circuit, and Tenth Circuit, as well as various federal and state trial courts in California.
Before joining the firm, Hannah was a Senior Staff Attorney at Public Justice, where she briefed, argued, and won significant workers’ rights and consumer protection cases in courts across the country. Earlier in her career, Hannah served as a Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and as a Deputy County Counsel in the Social Justice and Impact Litigation Section of the Santa Clara County Counsel’s Office.
Hannah’s work has involved representing clients as both party and amicus at all levels of federal and state court. As representative samples, Hannah has handled cases regarding the Federal Arbitration Act’s transportation worker exemption, federal and state consumer protection statutes, and the First Amendment’s Freedom of Speech and Free Exercise Clauses. She has also served as counsel in class actions aimed at reforming the criminal legal system and challenging discriminatory electoral practices.
Hannah began her legal career clerking for Judge Stephen Reinhardt and Judge Richard A. Paez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She earned her law degree from Stanford Law School, where she participated in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, and her undergraduate degree from Yale University.
