• McDonald's — Sole counsel in a nationwide class action resulting in a $10.5 Million settlement. ⁽¹⁾
• The Oreo Case against Kraft Foods — Resulted in Kraft removing trans fat from all of its products and the White House requiring FDA to put trans fat on labels.
• ITT Commercial Finance Corporation — Won trial resulting in $2.8 Million judgment.
• Plastic Industry — Acted as lead counsel for the plastic bag industry. Time Magazine called him "The Patron Saint of Plastic Bags." Plastics News wrote that Stephen Joseph might have been "the highest-profile advocate for the plastics industry in the world."
• Medical malpractice case — Won $900,000 in jury trial against a doctor.

Stephen L. Joseph in the media