Attorney Profile
 

Curriculum Vitae

• Jan. 2007 to June 2007
  Member of California State Bar Family Law Executive Committee's San José Regional Standing Committee, Legislative Review.
• Feb. 1996 to Nov. 2006
  Law Office of Castro & Flores-Cerul. Areas of practice included family law, including dissolutions of marriage and domestic partnerships, summary dissolutions, annulments, parentage actions, child custody and visitation, domestic violence, child and spousal support, prenuptial agreements, adoptions and guardianships.
• October 2006
  Panel speaker for Cross Cultural Strategies Workshop, County of Santa Clara Domestic Violence Conference 2006, October 13, 2006, Hyatt, Santa Clara.
• July 2006
  Appointed by the California State Bar Board of Governors to the Committee on Women in the Law.
• January 2006
  Passed the California State Board of Certification Examination in Family Law taken in August 2005.
• December 1995
  Passed California Bar Examination taken in July 1995.
• Sept. 1992 to May 1995
  Obtained Juris Doctor from the University of San Francisco School of Law. Received Moot Court award for "Best Oral Argument" in 1993. Received Public Interest Law Scholar award from the Public Interest Clearinghouse in 1995. Litigated civil rights discrimination case in Civil Law Clinic, Fall 1994. Clerkship at Benchmark Institute, San Francisco, CA, Summer 1994. Clerkship at Equal Rights Advocates, San Francisco, CA, Fall 1993. Clerkship at University of California, Board of Regents, Oakland, CA, Summer 1993.
• June 1991 to Sept. 1992
  Founded Casa Juveníl, a homeless shelter for young men in San José, CA.
• Sept. 1987 to May 1991
  Obtained Bachelor of Science from Santa Clara University, double majoring in Political Science and Spanish with a minor in Business. Studied abroad at the Universidad Compultense de Madrid, Spain in 1989 and at the Universidad Nacionál Autónoma de México, México City, México in 1988. Member of Phi Sigma Iota, International Foreign Language Honor Society.

 

Memberships, Appointments and Community Service:

• Member of the California State Bar Association, Family Law Section
• Member of the Santa Clara County Bar Association, Family Law Executive Committee
• Member of La Raza Lawyer's Association of Santa Clara County
• Serve as temporary judge in Superior Court, Santa Clara County, Family Law Division
• Serve as Court appointed counsel for minor children in high conflict custody cases
• Provide pro bono legal representation for indigent parties in family law cases from the Pro Bono Project and other agency referrals
• Volunteer attorney for Lawyers in the Library at Martin Luther King Library, San José, CA

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