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Deepak Gupta

Deepak Gupta is the founding principal of Gupta Wessler and a lecturer at Harvard Law School, where he teaches the Harvard Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. He regularly appears before the U.S. Supreme Court and has briefed and argued a wide range of cutting-edge issues in state and federal courts nationwide, often focused on ensuring access to justice for people seeking corporate and governmental accountability. He also increasingly defends substantial verdicts on appeal. In 2024, Deepak is set to argue two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, one on disability discrimination and the other on securities fraud. In 2021, Deepak argued and prevailed in Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District, in which the Supreme Court ruled that people injured by mass-market products can get access to justice where their injury occurred. In 2019, Deepak was invited by the Supreme Court to argue in support of a judgment left undefended by the Solicitor General–the first Asian-American to receive such an appointment. Before founding the firm, Deepak was the first appellate lawyer hired at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Elizabeth Warren and was an attorney at Public Citizen Litigation Group.

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 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. A cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, Jon joined the firm in September 2012 following his clerkship with the Judge Ronald Lee Gilman of the Sixth Circuit. Jon has presented oral argument before the First, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits, as well as the Supreme Court of Alaska and the District Court for the District of Columbia, 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. She has argued two U.S. Supreme Court cases on the Federal Arbitration Act’s exemption for transportation workers (New Prime v. Oliveira and Southwest v. Saxon), both of which she won unanimously, and recently argued a third (Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries). Her practice covers a wide range of issues including civil rights, consumer protection, constitutional law, workers’ rights, and government transparency. 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. A graduate of Yale Law School, she clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon of the Ninth Circuit, Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York, and Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California.

Greg Beck

Greg Beck is a 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. Greg has been quoted widely in media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, the National Law Journal, Wired Magazine, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and On the Media. He has spoken at events hosted by the American Bar Association; the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers; the District of Columbia, Florida, Louisiana, and New York City bars; the National Association of Attorneys General; and others.

	Robert Friedman Robert Friedman is an associate 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. As a student at Yale Law School, Thomas was a member of the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, where he worked on cases that successfully challenged racial profiling during ICE raids, protected humanitarian aid workers from criminal prosecution, and helped noncitizens who were victims of crimes to obtain work permits. As an intern with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, he was involved in a range of cases including litigation challenging policy changes by the Trump administration. And as an intern with The Door, Thomas represented young people in immigration proceedings and family court.
	Gabe Chess Gabe Chess joined the firm as a fellow in 2024 between his clerkships with Judge Toby Heytens of the Fourth Circuit and Judge Jia Cobb of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. During law school, Gabe worked at Public Justice; the Promise of Justice Initiative, where he helped develop a litigation strategy to challenge forced labor in Louisiana’s prisons and jails; and the Neighborhood Defender Service of Detroit. He also worked on behalf of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people through a law school clinic, was a book review editor on the Michigan Law Review, and published a Note on the potential of bringing contract claims in response to the privatization of government services. Before law school Gabe worked with artists and musicians in Detroit.
	Eric Citron Eric Citron is an accomplished Supreme Court and appellate litigator who has represented plaintiffs in high-stakes antitrust, competition, and consumer protection matters. Eric clerked for Justices Elena Kagan and Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge David Tatel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge James Robertson on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He joined Gupta Wessler as Of Counsel in 2023 after a decade as a partner at a prominent Supreme Court litigation boutique. Eric has also taught for many years in Harvard Law School’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. Eric also previously served as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and was a senior associate in the Supreme Court & Appellate Practice at WilmerHale. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, in Social Studies from Harvard College and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as Projects Editor of the Yale Law Review.

	Abigail Roston Abigail Roston is a legal assistant and office manager at the firm. Before joining Gupta Wessler, Abigail spent a year at the University of Oxford in England, where she received her MSc in Criminal Justice with merit. Abigail is a Truman Scholar and was awarded the Findlay Fellowship, Northwestern University’s largest fellowship for graduate study abroad. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Northwestern with degrees in legal studies and history as well as a minor in data science. She received both individual and interdisciplinary honors for her senior thesis on Supreme Court law clerk tributes. At Northwestern, Abigail served as the President of Planned Parenthood Generation Action and as a Board Member for Northwestern’s Prison Education Program. She also worked as a research partner to Professor Leslie Harris, investigating the history of crime in New Orleans. Abigail is from a small town in Montana outside of Glacier National Park.
	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.