Gregory P. Joseph is a Fellow and President-Elect of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and former Chair of the 60,000-member Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association. By appointment of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, he served on the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence from 1993-99. He also served as Chair of the New York State Courts' Committee of Lawyers to Enhance the Jury Process, by appointment of New York Chief Judge Judith Kaye. In 2001-02, he served as Co-Chair of the Third Circuit Task Force on Selection of Class Counsel by appointment of Chief Judge Edward R. Becker. He formerly chaired the Litigation Department at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York. Mr. Joseph is the Secretary of the United States Supreme Court Historical Society.

In a world survey conducted in 2009 by London-based Who’s Who Legal, Mr. Joseph was rated one of the 10 most highly regarded commercial litigators in the world, as he had been in 2008 (Who's Who Legal - Commercial Litigation 2009, p. 2; International Who’s Who of Commercial Litigators 2008, p. 2). In a 2009 survey by Legal Media Group, he was rated one of the top 25 litigators in the United States (The Best of the Best USA 2009, p. 94), as he was in 2008. In prior surveys conducted by International Commercial Litigation and by Who’s Who Legal, Mr. Joseph was rated one of the 10 best commercial litigators in the United States and in the world, respectively (Who’s Who Legal, Commercial Litigation 2006, p. 2; International Commercial Litigation, "The Best in the World,“ May 1996, page 9). He is an honors graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School (1975) and has tried dozens of cases in fields as diverse as securities fraud, takeovers, intellectual property, corporate governance, fiduciary duty, federal taxation, tort and contract. He has lectured extensively on complex litigation, securities laws, evidence, procedure, RICO and class actions. He served as Assistant U.S. Special Prosecutor in the investigation of the United States Secretary of Labor in the early 1980s.

Mr. Joseph is the author of several books, including Modern Visual Evidence, which has been described as "the authoritative text" on that subject (Communication Arts, September/October 1995, p. 45); Sanctions: The Federal Law of Litigation Abuse (4th ed. 2008), which is cited in the Advisory Committee Notes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; and Civil RICO: A Definitive Guide (2d ed. 2000), which the Harvard Law Review says ‛meticulously analyzes the decisions“ (vol. 106, p. 1376) and Fortune calls “the leading treatise on RICO” (Sept. 29, 2008 at 135). He has written more than 100 articles in professional journals. His books and articles have been cited in more than 150 reported decisions, 300 law review articles and in the Advisory Committee Notes to the Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Moore's Federal Practice (3d ed.), a multivolume treatise on federal procedure.

Mr. Joseph has lectured for the Federal Judicial Center and National Judicial College; lectured at the Judicial Conferences of the First, Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Circuits, U.S. Tax Court and U.S. Court of Claims; and spoken at the Annual Meetings of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the American Arbitration Association, and the Federal Bar Association. As an ABA advisor to the Uniform Rules of Evidence Committee of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, he was the principal drafter of Unif. R. Evid. 807 (allowing children alternatives to in-court testimony). He formerly served on the Executive Committee, and as Chair of the Committee on Professional Responsibility, of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is a member of the American Law Institute and sits on the Board of the Stein Center of Law & Ethics at Fordham Law School.

In 1991, Mr. Joseph was the recipient of the William J. Brennan, Jr. Award of the University of Virginia School of Law. His biography appears in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in American Law and similar publications.