Deepak Gupta (attorney)

Gupta earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Fordham University and a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center. He also studied Sanskrit at the University of Oxford in England. He served as a law clerk for Judge Lawrence K. Karlton.^[2]

He teaches as a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, where he is an instructor in the Harvard Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, teaches seminars on the forced arbitration and public interest law, and was previously a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow, and is a former adjunct professor of Law at Georgetown Law and American University's Washington College of Law.^[3] In 2011, Gupta became the first appellate litigator hired under Elizabeth Warren’s leadership at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.^[4] After leaving the CFPB in 2012, he established the firm now known as Gupta Wessler LLP. He previously worked for seven years at Public Citizen Litigation Group, where he was staff attorney and the founding director of the Consumer Justice Project and the Alan Morrison Supreme Court Assistance Project Fellow. He is an appointed member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and an elected member of the American Law Institute and serves on the boards of several organizations and academic research institutes, including the Open Markets Institute, the National Consumer Law Center, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.^[5][6][7] Gupta has worked in the U.S Department of Justice Voting Rights Section and at the ACLU's National Prison Project and Americans United for Separation of Church and State.^[8]

Gupta was considered for a vacancy on the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit during the presidency of Joe Biden.^[9] 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."^[8]