"When this man is irked, he might just file a suit...
and often it doesn't matter if he wins."

New York Times article about Stephen L. Joseph

  


Highly experienced litigator
and transaction attorney


Providing the following legal services:

Business Litigation

Business Litigation

Real Estate Litigation & Transactional Law

Real Estate Litigation & Transactional Law

Landlord-Tenant Law (Including Unlawful Detainer)

Landlord-Tenant Law (Including Unlawful Detainer)

Wage Hour & Employment Compliance

Wage Hour & Employment Compliance

Personal Injury

Personal Injury




Stephen L. Joseph's decades of experience include:

  • 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.

  • (1) Including legal fees.
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