Stephen Joseph

Stephen Joseph

Counsel at Coalition Against Distracted Driving DDLAWSUIT.COM
Los Angeles, California
Legal Services
Current
  1. Coalition Against Distracted Driving
  2. Law Offices of Stephen L. Joseph
Previous
  1. Save The Plastic Bag Coalition
  2. Ban Trans Fats
  3. American Heart Association trans fat committee
Education
  1. California bar
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Phone: (310) 266-6662
E-mail: sljoseph@earthlink.net
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Stephen ("Steve"​) Joseph is a litigation, corporate, real estate, and government relations attorney and an experienced national campaigner.

He was the principal attorney in the United States representing the plastic bag industry. The editor of Plastics News wrote that he "may currently be the highest-profile advocate for the plastics industry in the world."​

He started and led the successful national campaign to ban trans fat. He sued Kraft to ban Oreo cookies because they contained trans fat, which resulted in Kraft removing trans fat from Oreos and all of its products. He sued McDonald's because of the trans fat in its fries, which resulted in a $10.5 million settlement. McDonald's removed the trans fat from its fries. He was a member of the American Heart Association trans fat panel. He created America's First Trans Fat-Free City, which led to New York City and the State of California banning trans fat. He held the world's only Zero Trans Fat Cooking Oil Contest. The FDA recently announced that it will ban trans fat completely nationwide.

Steve has appeared on Good Morning America, the Today Show, CNN with Anderson Cooper, Fox, and multiple times on CNBC.

Jay Leno mentioned him in two monologues on the Tonight Show. David Letterman talked about him on the Late Show. He was the subject of a debate on ABC's The View. He was vilified by Rush Limbaugh and the Drudge Report. He has been interviewed dozens of times on TV and radio stations in the US, Canada, Britain, France, and other countries.

He has been profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and also by the NY Times, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and California Lawyer magazine.

Time Magazine called him “The Patron Saint of Plastic Bags.”

A Wall Street Journal editorial called him the “Cookie Monster.”

In 2003, a photo of him was the world's most e-mailed photo on Yahoo for three days.