He published over 50 articles in a variety of publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal, San Diego Union, Sacramento Bee, Orange County Register, and Washington Times.

[10][11][12][13][14] Steel is a trial attorney specializing in personal injury law and pioneered a specialty representing alternative health care providers, particularly chiropractors and acupuncturists.

Steel's lifetime of conservative political activism began as a leader in the San Fernando Valley Youth for Goldwater (YFG).

After the Goldwater defeat, he helped form numerous chapters of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) in the Los Angeles region.

Corporate raider Gerry Parsky, and President George W. Bush's unofficial representative in California questioned the strategy of recalling Gray Davis.

He also is a regular lecturer at Palmer College of Chiropractic in San Jose and Southern California University of Health Services in Whittier.

[22] Steel is known for having broken significant legal ground by representing family members of the notorious Jonestown massacre in Guyana in his early practice.

[23][24] More recently he has filed lawsuits against University of California, Berkeley seeking to protect First Amendment Freedom of Speech rights.