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Deepak Gupta

Deepak Gupta is Founding Principal of Gupta Wessler and a lecturer at Harvard Law School, where he teaches the Harvard Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. Over more than two decades, Deepak has led high-stakes cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (including three arguments in the 2024-2025 term), all thirteen federal circuits, many state supreme courts, and trial courts nationwide. Much of Deepak’s advocacy has focused on ensuring access to justice for consumers, workers, and communities injured by corporate or governmental wrongdoing. As a go-to appellate advocate for plaintiffs, Deepak is frequently sought out by trial lawyers to defend their most consequential victories or resurrect worthy claims on appeal—often after years of hard-fought litigation—including the defense of some the largest jury verdicts in the nation.

Matthew Wessler

Matt Wessler is a Principal of Gupta Wessler. He handles high-profile cases at all levels of both state and federal court and has argued multiple cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including three ERISA cases. Outside of the Supreme Court, Matt’s practice involves a wide range of areas including class actions, health care, employee benefits, consumer protection, preemption, arbitration, and banking. He has been named a Super Lawyer in appellate litigation and has been profiled by the National Law Journal for his appellate work on behalf of plaintiffs. In addition to his appellate work, Matt also frequently co-counsels with trial firms in complex, ground-up litigation.

Jonathan E. Taylor

Jon Taylor is a Principal of Gupta Wessler, where he focuses on representing plaintiffs in Supreme Court, appellate, and complex litigation. He has presented oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court (twice), the First, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits, as well as the Supreme Court of Alaska, and has been a principal author of dozens of briefs filed at all levels of the state and federal judiciaries. His work has spanned a wide range of topics, including the First Amendment, Second Amendment, Article III standing, class certification, civil rights, administrative law, and a broad array of issues involving consumers’ and workers’ rights.

Jennifer Bennett

Jennifer Bennett is a Principal of Gupta Wessler, where she heads the San Francisco office. Jennifer regularly litigates before the U.S. Supreme Court, including recently arguing and winning three landmark victories on behalf of workers in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries, Saxon v. Southwest and New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira. Her victory in New Prime was the first case in over a decade in which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the party challenging arbitration. In addition to her U.S. Supreme Court litigation, Jennifer regularly handles appeals in both state and federal court on a wide range of issues including civil rights, workers’ rights, consumer protection, constitutional law, and access to justice. Jennifer’s Supreme Court and appellate advocacy has been recognized with several national awards, including the Pound Civil Justice Institute’s Appellate Advocacy Award (twice), the American Association for Justice’s F. Scott Baldwin Award, Public Justice’s Change Maker Award, and the National Consumer Law Center’s Rising Star Award. Law360 profiled Jennifer as one of twelve lawyers who is the future of the Supreme Court bar.

Greg Beck

Greg Beck is Senior Counsel at Gupta Wessler, where he focuses on representing plaintiffs and public-interest clients in Supreme Court, appellate, and constitutional litigation. He also teaches appellate advocacy as an adjunct law professor. Greg is a seasoned advocate who has briefed and argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court; the Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits; and district courts around the country.

	Robert Friedman Robert Friedman is Counsel at Gupta Wessler. He focuses on litigating under federal and state anti-discrimination and consumer protection statutes in cases across the country. He also has extensive experience representing plaintiffs in cases against government actors. Before joining the firm, Rob was a Senior Counsel at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, a public interest litigation organization housed at Georgetown University Law Center, and the Relman Civil Rights Fellow at Relman Colfax PLLC. He served as a law clerk to Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
	Jessica Garland Jessie Garland is an Associate at Gupta Wessler. She joined the firm as a litigation fellow in the San Francisco office following judicial clerkships with Judge David Barron of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Paul Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She has also accepted a clerkship with Justice Elena Kagan on the U.S. Supreme Court. Jessie graduated from Yale Law School and was a Henry Fellow at Cambridge University, where she received an MPhil in Criminology. As a law student, Jessie worked on ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims with the Ethics Bureau, litigated prisoner and immigrant cases in the Second Circuit with the Appellate Litigation Project, and interned for the Office of the Appellate Defender in New York.
	Thomas Scott-Railton Thomas Scott-Railton is an Associate at Gupta Wessler LLP, where he focuses on complex public interest and plaintiffs’-side appellate litigation. He joined the firm following clerkships with Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court, then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Alison Nathan, then on the Southern District of New York. Thomas was previously a fellow with the Impact Litigation Practice of The Bronx Defenders, where he litigated cases involving the rights of detained persons, police misconduct, and access to courts, as well as several successful appeals in individual immigration cases. Thomas has a longstanding dedication to public interest and civil rights litigation.
	Alisa Philo Alisa Philo is Counsel at Gupta Wessler. Alisa joins the firm after almost ten years at the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Most recently, she was an attorney in the Civil Rights Division’s Appellate Section, where she worked on civil and criminal appeals across a range of civil rights issues in federal courts of appeals and worked with the Office of the Solicitor General on civil rights matters before the U.S. Supreme Court. Before that, she worked on employment discrimination cases in federal district courts. She clerked for Judge Keith Ellison in the Southern District of Texas and Judge Sandra Lynch on the First Circuit. Alisa earned her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Stanford Law School.

	Michael Skocpol Michael Skocpol is Counsel at Gupta Wessler. Before joining the firm, Michael was an Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), where he litigated civil rights and racial justice matters in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. Before entering private practice, Michael served as a law clerk for Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Cornelia Pillard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Gary S. Feinerman of the Northern District of Illinois. Michael has also taught legal writing and oral advocacy as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Michael received his J.D. from Stanford Law School, and an undergraduate degree from Brown University.
	Katie Bart Katie Bart is the Director of Operations at Gupta Wessler. Before joining Gupta Wessler, Katie spent five years in legal operations at federal employment and appellate law firms. She also worked as a bread baker and pastry cook at local D.C. bakeries. After graduating college, Katie spent a year working on bail reform at the ACLU of Michigan. Katie graduated with honors from the University of Chicago with a degree in public policy and a specialization in law & inequality. While in college, Katie was involved in community organizing with public housing advocates, completed a human rights internship on the U.S. border, and wrote her senior thesis on the undemocratic deployment of financial emergency management in Michigan school districts.
	Blaire Palmer Blaire Palmer is a Legal Assistant and Office Manager at the firm. Before joining Gupta Wessler, she was a press associate at Human Rights Watch, where she placed reports in top global outlets and produced and launched the organization’s flagship podcast. She also negotiated a new collective bargaining agreement in her time at as a union shop steward with CWA Local 1180. Blaire graduated from Elon University with degrees in international global studies and media analytics, and received outstanding senior awards in Arabic and Media Studies. Blaire is from a town just outside of Charlottesville, Virginia.
	Aidan Scible Aidan Scible is a Legal Assistant and Office Manager at the firm. Before joining Gupta Wessler, he interned for a law firm specializing in immigration, for a government affairs firm covering Vermont state politics, and for the Project on Middle East Democracy. He graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College with a degree in Political Science, where he was president of the Middlebury Debate Society. Aidan is a proud native of Baltimore, Maryland.