ANTONIO  CASTRO

       Antonio Castro is a commercial trial lawyer with more than 15 years of courtroom experience.  His main practice area is civil litigation, emphasizing complex commercial litigation and arbitration.  Mr. Castro has extensive experience in counseling and representing multinational corporations, as well as individuals and local companies, in resolving all types of business disputes.  Mr. Castro’s experience includes representing a multinational corporation in products liability disputes, a foreign television corporation in trademark infringement litigation arising out of the alleged breach of a management contract, a commercial contractor in construction arbitration, a trust beneficiary in securities arbitration, physicians in actions for breach of employment contract and violation of non-compete agreements, and beneficiaries in will and trust disputes.  Mr. Castro has also handled numerous matters relating to forum non conveniens.

     Mr. Castro is fluent in Spanish and has handled litigation matters involving various foreign jurisdictions in Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean.  Mr. Castro is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell®—indicating the highest level of legal ability and ethics—and has been recognized by Florida Trend magazine as one of the State’s Legal Leaders in the area of commercial litigation.

     Mr. Castro attended Columbia College and Georgetown University Law Center.  After law school, Mr. Castro served as an Assistant State Attorney in Miami-Dade County, where he tried over 40 jury cases and was selected to teach litigation skills to junior prosecutors.  Following his government service, Mr. Castro entered private practice in 1996 and has represented plaintiffs and defendants alike in trials, arbitrations, and appeals.  Prior to joining Rivero Mestre & Castro, Mr. Castro was litigation counsel with the national law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner.

      Beyond the practice of law, Mr. Castro remains active in bar activities, both with voluntary bar associations and with the Florida Bar.  He has served as the President of the Cuban American Bar Association and is a Director of the League of Prosecutors.  Currently, Mr. Castro serves on the Florida Bar’s Civil Procedure Rules Committee, and on the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Rules and Procedures for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.  He also serves as a member of the Florida Bar Grievance Committee.