• Joseph Amoroso is a seasoned litigation attorney with more than 25 years of experience handling complex legal matters across a broad range of industries. He represents clients ranging from small and mid-sized businesses to Fortune 100 companies in high-stakes litigation, including single-plaintiff claims, class actions, and multidistrict proceedings. His practice spans all levels of state and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as alternative dispute resolution forums and administrative agencies.
     
    In addition to his litigation practice, Joseph serves as trusted in-house counsel to a number of small and mid-sized corporations, advising on risk management, compliance, and day-to-day legal issues. He focuses his practice on product liability, insurance defense, employment litigation, environmental law, appellate advocacy, and corporate defense.
     
    Early in his career, Joseph served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable James J. Petrella, Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division, where he gained valuable insight into appellate jurisprudence.
     
    Joseph has played a key role in numerous high-profile and complex matters. His experience includes successfully representing an international telecommunications company in a multi-party $7 million dispute through trial, defending global pharmaceutical companies in multidistrict mass tort and product liability class actions, and litigating a multibillion-dollar antitrust case between multinational pharmaceutical corporations in federal court and before the Third Circuit. He has also secured favorable outcomes in significant commercial disputes, environmental litigation, and catastrophic injury cases.
     
    His representative matters include achieving successful resolutions for Fortune 50 retail pharmacy clients in negligence and wrongful death claims, contributing to a landmark appeal before the New Jersey Supreme Court overturning the largest medical malpractice verdict in the state’s history, and defending one of the nation’s largest liquid petroleum gas distributors in a wide array of complex litigation. Joseph has also obtained multiple dismissals in high-exposure product liability cases involving alleged design defects and failure-to-warn claims.
     
    Recognized for his professional excellence, Joseph has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Litigation and Environmental Law (2025–2026).

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    • Presenter, "Enviornmental Compliance Issues," LANXESS Annual Global HESQ Conference, October 9, 2024
    • "In Hot Pursuit of NRD Claims,” Environmental Claims Journal, 19(4):219-238 (2007) Co-author
    • Member, Washington Township Environmental Commission
    • Board Member, St. Peters Preparatory School Alumni Association
    • Member, National Italian American Foundation
    • Member, New Jersey State Bar Association
    • Member, New York State Bar Association
    • Member, Defense Research Institute
    • Represented an international telecommunications client in multi-party $7 million complex litigation dispute, obtaining a successful resolution at trial
    • Represented a global Fortune 200 pharmaceutical company in multidistrict mass tort product liability class actions involving allegations that their drug, which is contained in its over-the-counter cold medicine, caused stroke
    • Represented an international Fortune 200 pharmaceutical company in a multidistrict class action litigation involving a cholesterol lowering drug alleged to have caused rhabdomyolysis
    • Litigated a multibillion-dollar antitrust dispute between multinational pharmaceutical companies in federal district court and before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
    • Successfully settled a multimillion-dollar commercial dispute on behalf of a Chinese chemical supplier and a large worldwide pharmaceutical company
    • Provided representation to a Fortune 50 pharmacy store chain in various negligence-related lawsuits, including prescription error and wrongful death cases
    • Partnered with team of attorneys that successfully appealed to the New Jersey Supreme Court on behalf of an insured to overturn the largest medical malpractice verdict in State history
    • Defended one of the largest liquid petroleum gas distributors in the United States in numerous types of matters venued in the New Jersey and New York courts, including cases involving consumer fraud and price fixing, as well as negligence and common law fraud
    • Achieved favorable results for clients in numerous Superfund and state law environmental lawsuits and allocation proceedings brought in New York and New Jersey
    • Obtained several dismissals of catastrophic injury actions in numerous state and federal lawsuits brought against a forklift manufacturer in New York and New Jersey, involving allegations of defective designs, inadequate warnings, or failure to meet appropriate standards of care
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