Firm: Gupta Wessler PLLC (www.guptawessler.com)
Practice Areas: Appeals
Deepak Gupta is the founding principal of Gupta Wessler PLLC, a national appellate litigation boutique based in Washington, DC. He specializes in Supreme Court and appellate litigation on behalf of plaintiffs, with an emphasis on class actions, consumers’ and workers’ rights, and constitutional law. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at both Georgetown and American universities, teaching courses on public interest and appellate advocacy.. Deepak has briefed or argued cases on a wide range of issues before the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appellate and district courts nationwide, and seven state supreme courts. He argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion (2011), a landmark case at the intersection of arbitration, preemption and class actions that has been described by the Washington Post as “one of the court’s most important on consumer rights in years” and by the Federalist Society as “one of the most controversial Supreme Court decisions in many years.” Most recently, in February 2013, he argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of the plaintiffs in McBurney v. Young, a pending constitutional challenge to Virginia’s bar on nonresidents’ right to access public records.. Before leaving government to start his own firm, Deepak served as Senior Litigation Counsel and Senior Counsel for Enforcement Strategy at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau during the new federal agency’s historic founding in 2011-2012. As the first appellate litigator hired under the leadership of Professor Elizabeth Warren, he was instrumental in launching the agency’s amicus program, defending its regulations in court, and working with the Solicitor General’s office on Supreme Court matters. His duties also included providing advice to top officials on legal issues including preemption, arbitration, and administrative and constitutional law.. For seven years previously, Deepak was an attorney at Public Citizen, where he founded and directed the organization’s Consumer Justice Project, collaborating with advocates nationwide on class actions and appeals.
Firm: Gang & Associates, P.A.
Practice Areas: Appeals
Practice Overview. Practice primarily limited to representation before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Offices nationwide and the Board of Veterans Appeals, Washington, D.C. We also represent a small, select group of private clients on unique legal matters, including qui tam whistleblower cases involving SDVOSB fraud, defense contractor fraud, and mesothelioma and asbestos cases.. Also admitted in the following:. U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. U.S. District Court. Lecturer. Faculty and continuing legal education lecturer for Lawline, National Business Institute, NJ ICLE, and Rossdale. Also, a Lecturer for American Mensa, the high IQ society.. Community Activities. Serves as executive director of a nonprofit disabled veterans advocacy group
Firm: Law Office of Lawrence J. Joseph
Practice Areas: Appeals
I formed my firm in July 2003 to undertake a pro bono matter matter that I could not undertake pro bono with my prior firm. Since then, I have worked primarily on Clean Air Act issues and administrative-law challenges to actions by federal agencies, including EPA, HHS, FDA, and DOE.
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My goals are to continue to provide high-caliber legal respresentation with flexible billing arrangements, while having time to devote to my family. Environmentally, I have significant experience in the Clean Air Act, especially the preemption of state and local vehicular standards, as well as TSCA and FIFRA. With civil rights, I am the national expert (through lack of any competition) on the administrative history of federal "Title IX" regulations.Beyond these specific substantive areas, I work extensively in the general area of judicial review of agency action under the APA, Section 1983, and their state-law equivalents.
