Angel Castillo, Jr.:
CLASS OF 1963
Miami Edison Senior High SchoolClass of 1963
Miami, FL
Yale University - LawClass of 1980
New haven, CT
University of Florida - LawClass of 1978
Gainesville, FL
Stetson UniversityClass of 1967
De land, FL
Miami Military AcademyClass of 1959
Miami, FL
Angel's Story
Angel Castillo, Jr.
I. PERSONAL
Born November 29, 1946 in Havana, Cuba
U.S. Citizen
Languages: Spanish and French; working knowledge of Portuguese and Italian
Hobbies: Latin American Affairs and History;
Travel (countries visited: Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador,
England, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mexico, People's Republic of China, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain)
II. CURRENT OCCUPATION
Attorney at Law
Wald, Stafford & Law, P.A.
Miami, Florida
Areas of Practice:
Employment Law
International Law
Appellate Practice
III. PRIOR WORK ACTIVITIES
A. Legal
Attorney (Partner)
Jackson Lewis LLP
Miami
(May 2008 to April 2011)
Partner
Ogletree Deakins
Miami
(2006-2008)
Of Counsel
Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP
Miami
(1999-2005)
Attorney (Partner)
Castillo, Stafford & Wald
Coral Gables, Florida
(1995-1999)
Attorney (Partner)
Castillo, Schweiger & Stafford
Coral Gables, Florida
(1989 1995)
Attorney (Partner)
Soto & Castillo, et al.
Miami, Florida
(1987 1989)
Senior Associate Attorney
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Miami, Florida
(1983 1986)
Associate Attorney
Shutts & Bowen
Miami, Florida
(1981 1983)
Associate Attorney
Mahoney, Hadlow & Adams
Jacksonville, Florida
(summer 1979)
Law Clerk, Criminal Prosecutions (summer 1977)
U.S. Attorney's Office
Department of Justice
Tampa, Florida
Supervisor: Chief AUSA William M. James, Jr., Esq.
B. Journalism
Assistant Managing Editor/News
The Miami Herald, and
Editor, El Herald (Spanish language edition)
Miami, Florida 33132
(1986 1987)
The New York Times
Legal Affairs Reporter
(1980 1981)
Reporter, St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, Florida (1973 1976); The
Montreal Star, Montreal, P.Q., Canada (1971 1973); Kitchener Waterloo Record, Kitchener, Ont., Canada (1970 1971); The Associated Press, Atlanta, Georgia (1969 1970); The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida (1968)
C. Other Employment History
Executive Assistant to
Chairman Jack D. Gordon
Ways and Means Committee
The Florida Senate
Tallahassee, Florida
(1978 1979)
Press Secretary
Robert L. Shevin Gubernatorial Campaign
Tallahassee, Florida
(1978)
IV. EDUCATION
Colegio De La Salle
Vedado, Havana, Cuba
(1952 1960)
Miami Military Academy
Miami, Florida
(1958 1959)
Miami Edison Senior High School
Miami, Florida (1960 1963) (High School Degree, 1963)
Stetson University, DeLand, Florida
(1963 1967) (B.A., English, 1968)
Student Body President
Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges
University of Florida
Holland Law Center
Gainesville, Florida
(1976 1978)
J.D., With High Honors, 1978
Executive Editor, Law Review
Honors: Order of the Coif; Phi Kappa Phi
Yale University Law School
New Haven, Connecticut
(1979-1980) (LL.M., 1980)
Other University Studies: University of North Carolina (Extension Division),
Black Mountain, N.C. (American Literature, summer 1967); University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla. (Film Production, summer 1968); Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, Cal. (Graduate Studies in Education, fall 1969); University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla. (Macroeconomics, summer 1977); National Institute for Trial Advocacy (Trial Advocacy Course Diploma, Philadelphia, Pa., 1984)
Professional Biography
ANGEL CASTILLO, JR. has significant experience over more than 25 years of practice in employment and other civil litigation and in domestic and international arbitrations. His Martindale-Hubbell Peer Rating is AV. Mr. Castillo has been selected by both the South Florida Legal Guide and Florida Super Lawyers as one of the top Labor and Employment lawyers in South Florida.
His practice currently focuses on representing employers in state and federal court litigation and appeals, including defending claims arising in the workplace alleging discrimination on the basis of physical and mental disabilities (Americans with Disabilities Act), age (Age Discrimination in Employment Act), gender (including sexual harassment), pregnancy, religious beliefs, race, and national origin (Title VII); alleging violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act; and alleging employment-related common law tort claims such as battery, defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. He represents clients in such litigation primarily in Florida and Puerto Rico. Additionally, he is experienced in litigating claims arising from employment contracts, including disputes over non-compete covenants and confidentiality agreements. Besides his experience in litigation, Mr. Castillo also has extensive experience in advising employers regarding employee terminations and lay-offs, reductions in force, and plant closings (including WARN Act issues).
Mr. Castillo also conducts training sessions and seminars in English as well as in Spanish for management, supervisors, and employees on issues of workplace law aimed at ensuring full compliance with applicable laws and avoiding litigation, administrative proceedings, and investigations. The subjects of such sessions include, among others, sex harassment, retaliation, wage-and-hour laws, reasonable disability accommodation, leave laws, pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse policies, and language policies in the workplace, among others.
Mr. Castillo has worked on Latin American legal issues throughout his years of practice, and has worked with and supervised local lawyers in and visited Mexico and many countries in the Caribbean and Central and South America, including Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Argentina. He is a former Chair of the International Law Committee of the Miami-Dade County Bar Association, which he founded. He has litigated and tried a number of cases in United States courts governed by the laws of various Latin American countries, including Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic, among others. He recently concluded a lengthy international arbitration governed by the law of El Salvador, conducted by the American Arbitration Association in Spanish, and another one, governed by the law of Brazil, conducted by the International Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Castillo has counseled numerous clients on employee terminations, workforce restructurings, and reductions of force in, among other jurisdictions, Florida, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and the Philippines. He has lectured on the Labor Laws of Argentina, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Brazil. He has testified as an expert witness on the negligence law of Honduras in a mining accident case before the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan.
A native of Havana, Cuba, who has lived in the United States since his high school years, Mr. Castillo is fluent in Spanish and has a working knowledge of French and Portuguese.
Both before and after being admitted to the practice of law, Mr. Castillo had significant work experience in journalism, including working for the New York Times as legal affairs reporter, and as an assistant managing editor of The Miami Herald and editor-in-chief of its Spanish language edition, now known as El Nuevo Herald, which he helped redesign.
Mr. Castillo has deep roots in Miami. While his family lived in Cuba, where his father was a labor lawyer and his mother a professor, he spent a year at Miami Military Academy learning to speak English. Later, when his entire family abandoned the island as exiles following the communist revolution, Mr. Castillo attended and graduated from Miami Edison Senior High School, and delivered the Miami Herald in the mornings and the Miami News in the afternoons to help his family make ends meet.
Mr. Castillo received his bachelor's degree from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, where he was student body president, in 1968. He received his J.D. degree with high honors in 1978 from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he graduated first in his class and was Executive Editor of the Law Review and a member of Phi Delta Phi. He was awarded the LL.M. degree by the Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1980.
Mr. Castillo has been married since 1977 to Stormie G. Stafford, also an attorney. They live in Coral Gables and have two children, Arielle C. Castillo, 27, a 2005 graduate of New York University who is freelance writer on p...Expand for more
opular music, and Angel MartÃÂ Castillo, 22, a graduate of Dartmouth College with a major in East Asian Studies now pursuing a master's degree in television writing and production at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University. Both of the Castillo children were born at Miami's Baptist Hospital and are graduates of George Washington Carver Middle School and of Coral Gables Senior High School.
Mr. Castillo is admitted to practice in the State of Florida, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Eleventh and Fifth Circuits, and also the First Circuit, which handles appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. He also is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida and, by examination, in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico in San Juan.
Mr. Castillo is a member of the Cuban-American Bar Association, the Puerto Rican Bar Association of Florida, and the Miami and Puerto Rico Chapters of the Federal Bar Association. He also belongs to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the Puerto Rican Professional Association of South Florida (PROFESA), the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA), and the American Bar Association (ABA).
Over his many years in Miami Mr. Castillo has been active in community and public service activities including the Dade Public Education Fund/Foundation for Excellence in Public Education, the Spanish American League Against Discrimination (S.A.L.A.D.), the Dade County Fair Campaign Practices Committee, and the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.
REPRESENTATIVE REPORTED COURT DECISIONS:
Grupo Televisa, S.A. v. Telemundo Communications Group, Inc., 485 F.3d 1233 (11th Cir. 2007)
Telemundo Network Group, LLC. v. Azteca International Corp., 957 So.2d 705 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007)
Americatel El Salvador, S.A. de C.V. v. CompañÃÂa de Telecomunicaciones de El Salvador, S.A. de C.V., No. 07- 21940-CIV, 2007 WL 2781057 (S. D. Fla. 2007)
Evelyn Rivera-Diaz v. Executive Airlines, Inc., 2006 Westlaw 126629 (D. Puerto Rico 2006)
Antonio Rivera Diaz v. American Airlines, Inc., 433 F.3d 120 (1st Cir. 2005)
Laffy v. Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc., No. 303CV1005J12MCR, 2005 WL 2562586
(M.D. Fla. 2005)
Torres-Negron v. Rivera and others, Civ. 02-1729 (HL), 2005 WL 1308675
(D. P.R. 2005)
Santini v. Unisys Puerto Rico, Inc., 338 F.Supp.2d 254 (D.P.R. 2004)
Matosantos Commercial Corporation v. SCA Tissue North America, LLC, 329 F.Supp.2d 255 (D.P.R. 2004)
Geddes v. American Airlines, Inc., 321 F.3d 1349 (11th Cir. 2003)
Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola Co., 256 F.Supp.2d 1345 (S.D. Fla. 2003)
Falic v. Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc., 347 F.Supp.2d 1260 (S.D. Fla. 2004)
Paul Rasmussen-Skidmore and Elinor Parker-Hill v. American Airlines, Inc., 198 F. Supp.2d 131 (D.P.R. 2002)
Rubin Cruz-Carrillo v. AMR Eagle, Inc., 148 F.Supp.2d 142 (D.P.R. 2001)
Lisa Gelabert Ladenheim v. American Airlines, Inc., 115 F.Supp.2d 225 (D.P.R.), affÿd, 252 F.3d 54 (1st Cir. 2001)
Marisol Adames and 93 others v. Executive Airlines, Inc. 258 F.3d 7 (1st Cir. 2001)
Executive Airlines, Inc. v. Van Benthuysen, 135 F.Supp.2d 146 (D.P.R. 2001)
Colon-Quiles v. American Airlines, Inc., 133 F.Supp.2d 151 (D.P.R. 2001)
Stas v. Posada, 760 So. 2d 954 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999)
Huertas v. Centro Cristiano de Alabanza, Inc., 717 So. 2d 625 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998)
Garcia v. Av-Med, Inc., 958 F. Supp. 592 (S.D. Fla. 1997)
United States v. Greenfield, 12 F.3d 217 (11th Cir. 1993)(First Amendment Amicus Brief)
Patria Publications, Inc. v. Armesto, 593 So. 2d 574 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992)
Resolution Trust Corp. v. Associated Investment Group, 792 F. Supp. 796 (S.D. Fla. 1991)
Bain v. Miller Lake Associates, N.V., 561 So.2d 1194 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990)
Florida Commercial Banks v. Culverhouse, 772 F.2d 1513 (11th Cir. 1985)
Spanish Intÿl Communications Corp. v. Leibowitz, 608 F. Supp. 178 (S.D. Fla. 1985)
International Placement and Recruiting v. Reagan Equip. Corp., 592 F. Supp. 1252
(E.D. Wis. 1984)
Miami Herald Pub. Co. v. Lewis, 452 So. 2d 144 (Fla. 4th DCA 1984)
Tobias Knoblauch Private Bank v. Southern Aero Traders, Inc., 443 So. 2d 202
(Fla. 3d DCA 1983)
Chapper v. National Bank of Detroit, 422 So. 2d 1102 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982)
Sunshine Terminal Services, Inc. v. National Life Ins. Co., 412 So. 2d 419 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982)
Florida Peach Corp. of America v. Lurie, 411 So. 2d 339 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982)
PUBLICATIONS AND SPEECHES:
ÿHow to Obtain an Exclusive Trademark for a Perfume Why Giorgioÿs Red Couldnÿt Stop Charlieÿs Red,ÿ Perfume 2000 Magazine, p. 10 (November 1995)
ÿThe Sixth Amendment: Juries in a Multicultural Society,ÿ in The Bill of Rights: 200 Years of Freedom, Special Edition, p. 17, The Miami Herald, December 1991
ÿÿQué es la Enmienda Boland?ÿ (ÿWhat is the Boland Amendment?ÿ), El Miami Herald, June 14, 1987, p. 16 (in Spanish)
ÿNew Law [Florida International Arbitration Act] Makes Florida Forum for Resolution of International Disputes,ÿ Dade County Bar Assÿn Bull. (Oct. 1986)
ÿThe Hague Evidence Convention: Foreign Parties Must Provide Broad Discovery in U.S. Litigation,ÿ 60 Florida Bar Journal 43 (July August 1986)and 11 Intÿl Legal Practitioner (London) 71 (Sept. 1986)
ÿSome Practical Aspects of International Litigation in the Courts of Florida,ÿ 16 University of Miami Inter American Law Review 559 (1985) (In Spanish)
ÿA Communist Country [China] Rediscovers the Rule of Law,ÿ Miami Review, April 29, 1982, p. 12
ÿTampering with our protection from illegal searchÿ (The Fourth Amendmentÿs Exclusionary Rule), in Viewpoint Section, The Miami Herald, p. 1E, November 1, 1981
ÿBill (Computer Software Copyright Act of 1980] Safeguards Data Programs,ÿ The New York Times, December 4, 1980, p. D1
Lecturer on Latin American Labor Law -- Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Puerto Rico
-- April 10, 2001, Morgan Lewis Seminar, Philadelphia
Panelist on television series broadcast by WLRN TV (PBS),
Miami, regarding First Amendment rights of free speech and other Bill of
Rights issues
Lecturer on International Litigation, Fifth Conference for Lawyers of the Americas,
Miami
Lecturer on Womenÿs Rights under the Cuban Constitutions of 1940 and 1976 at Miami conference, ÿThe future of women in a free Cubaÿ
Lecturer on the Hague Evidence Convention, National Hispanic Bar Association, New York City
Lecturer on Special Libel Problems of the Spanish Language News Media Florida Bar Media Law Conference, Miami
REPRESENTATIVE HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
Listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, Whoÿs Who in the World, Whoÿs Who in Finance and Business, and Who's Who in Florida's Latin Community
Life Member, American Bar Foundation
Member, Yale University Office of Undergraduate Admissions Alumni Schools Committee and Yale Club of Miami
Distinguished Service Award Recipient, 2002, Cuban-American Bar Association Pro Bono Project
Federal Bar Association Special Award (1987) for "unselfish support of the Federal Bar Association's Program to make the U.S. Constitution a living and meaningful document within the Hispanic community of Greater Miami"
Named to Dade County Bar Association's Pro Bono Honor Roll
Dade County Bar Association Certificate -- For public service as panelist on television series broadcast by WLRN-TV, Miami, regarding First Amendment rights of free speech and other Bill of Rights issues
Vice Chairman and Lecturer, Fifth Conference for Lawyers of the Americas, Miami, July 13-16, 1986, cosponsored by the University of Miami School of Law and the Cuban-American Bar Association
Lecturer on women's rights under the Cuban Constitutions of 1940 and 1976 at Miami conference, "The future of women in a free Cuba"
Lecturer on the Hague Evidence Convention, Decennial Convention, National Hispanic Bar Association, New York City
Lecturer on Special Libel Problems of the Spanish Language News Media, 1990 Florida Bar Media-Law Conference, Miami
Member, Judicial Nominating Commission, Third District Court of Appeal of Florida (1992 1995) (named by Governor Lawton Chiles)
Statewide Delegate, Florida 2000 Creative Crime Control, Tallahassee, Florida Conferences (named by Governor Bob Graham)
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