Castro & Associates are high tech specialists in multi-party construction litigation. The firm is comprised of California trial attorneys who are well-versed in California construction and property law. All attorneys have extensive construction backgrounds and experience. Each litigation attorney is supported by multiple staff members, paralegals, project managers, and legal assistants. We were the first construction law firm on the West Coast to implement its own Information Systems Department to computerize and regulate case staffing and prosecution. Most of the firm's fine attorneys and staff members are long time employees, and are among the most experienced in the Southland, earning the highest national legal rating for "pre-eminent legal ability."

To rapidly prepare your case and develop trial-ready evidence to move your case to a successful resolution in the most cost effective manner.

Construction cases are highly specialized, multi-party legal cases. Firm attorneys take an active role in coordinating and leading site inspections, invasive testing, and photo-documentation. They are as at home climbing between walls in hard hats as they are in a courtroom presenting evidence. Project information - photos, plans, and specifications - are synthesized in-house into widely admired and widely copied multi-media presentations. Clients, judges, juries, experts and even defense attorneys frequently complement us on these presentations and our rapid assembly of trial-ready evidence.

Our firm offers specialized expertise in the various construction disciplines - soils, waterproofing, architectural, structural, and seismic, to name a few - as well as vast experience in investigating and analyzing claims and insurance coverage.

The firm's commitment to hands-on development of California construction law includes annual construction law lectures for CEB (Continuing Education of the Bar) and annual state and national construction publications. Joel Castro is a Contributing Editor for California Construction Law Reporter, and has presented seminars for the California Association of Realtors, American Trial Lawyers Association, and the Los Angeles County Bar Association to name a few. The firm provides legislative analysis of new California construction legislation for trial lawyers' associations. In 2003, Joel Castro presented an in-depth analysis and CEB publication of Senate Bill 800, now C.C. § 896 et.seq.

Castro & Associates has decades of practical experience with a wide variety of construction projects and disciplines. We work closely with our clients to avoid "battles of attrition" and find the fastest way to the end zone. This no-nonsense approach has resulted in dramatic recoveries for our clients in record time. Most of our cases are referred by defense attorneys, former clients, judges or other legal professionals. In fact, the firm has often represented lawyers, judges, and Superior Court clerks. We are frequently asked to try ongoing cases that other attorneys have prepared. We are comfortable associating in with other counsel in devising new game plans for ongoing cases and in jointly litigating these cases, often as "lead counsel."