• Listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in Business and Finance, Who's Who in the World, 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 Certification - 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.

Angel Castillo, Jr., a Partner in the Miami office of Jackson Lewis LLP, 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, Nicaragua, 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 is a member of the Firm’s International Issues Practice Group, which provides one-stop global coordination of labor and employment law strategies for U.S. multinational businesses with foreign interests. He coordinates and supervises legal services to clients with operations throughout Latin America, including Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.

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.

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.

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.

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 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. His trial experience includes more than 50 trials and evidentiary hearings in federal and state courts, including a dozen jury trials. He also has extensive appellate experience in state and federal appellate courts, and a list of his published decisions from various trial and appellate courts is found below.

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 National Employment Law Council.

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.

Mr. Castillo has been married since 1977 to Stormie G. Stafford, an attorney with the appellate division of the Miami Office of the Florida Attorney General. They live in Coral Gables and have two children, Arielle C. Castillo, 25, a 2005 graduate of New York University who is the music editor and a writer for the Miami New Times weekly newspaper, and Angel Martí Castillo, 20, a sophomore at Dartmouth College majoring in East Asian Studies.