Nathan Castillo Los Angeles, CA

Transactional sports & corporate law

Every deal starts as a legal question.

I'm a J.D. candidate at Loyola Law School and a USC Legal Studies alum, working on the deal side — contracts, licensing, IP strategy, and the regulation that decides what a deal can look like before anyone reaches the table.

Office Manager, California Property Law Group nathancastillo629@gmail.com LinkedIn

The record
Loyola Law School  J.D. Candidate '29 USC  B.S. Legal Studies '26 LA Superior Court  Judicial Intern LA County D.A.  Student Worker California Property Law Group  Office Manager

2022 — 2029

Record of appearances

Nothing here happened one at a time. Community college and USC overlapped with campaign work, court internships, and a firm job — the bars show how much ran at once.

Legal & courts Leadership & service Education

Office Manager, California Property Law GroupLos Angeles
May 2026 — present
now
J.D. Candidate, Loyola Law SchoolClass of 2029
2026 — 2029
Director of Internal Outreach, Latino Students in LawUSC
Aug 2025 — May 2026
West Coast Regional Director, Legally Lawtino
Aug 2025 — May 2026
Legal Intern, Larhdel LawImmigration & business
Aug — Oct 2025
LSAC PLUS Program Scholar
Apr 2025 — May 2026
Volunteer Student Worker, LA County D.A.Glendale
May — Aug 2025
Judicial Intern, LA Superior Court
Jun — Jul 2025
Associate Editor, USC Journal of Law and Society
Mar — May 2025
B.S. Legal Studies, USCTransfer, Class of 2026
2024 — 2026
Voting Member, USC Legal Studies Student Association
Oct 2024 — Aug 2025
Committee on Affordability & Basic Needs, USG
Sep 2024 — May 2025
Intern, Nick Schultz for AssemblyBurbank
Aug — Nov 2024
College Corps Fellow450 hours, hunger relief
Aug 2023 — Jul 2024
Supplemental Instruction Leader, Glendale CollegeSociology 101
Aug 2023 — Jun 2024
Intern, USC Institute for Creative TechnologiesVeteran mental health app
Feb — May 2024
A.A. Political Science, Glendale Community College
2022 — 2024

Current work

What an office manager
actually runs at a litigation firm

Calendar

Court coverage for five attorneys

Assign counsel across simultaneous courtrooms — trials, ex partes, motions, OSCs — with no duplicate appearances and no missed hearings.

Billing

Revenue that would have been left on the table

Audit every active matter in Clio against the calendar before each hearing so appearance fees and motion prep are actually invoiced. Recovered unbilled charges across regular, Empire, and institutional clients.

Enforcement

Writs of possession, end to end

Prepare SER-001, SER-001A, and EJ-130 packages, coordinate with LASD civil service, generate shipping labels, and track every submission.

Filings

Notices of ruling and service

Draft and process notices through the LASC Attorney Portal and Countrywide e-filing, then manage electronic and mail service and proof-of-service compliance.

Tools — Clio · LASC Attorney Portal · Countrywide E-Filing · Adobe Acrobat · Front · Stamps · Microsoft Excel

Where I'm headed

Transactional sports
and corporate law

My USC capstone looked at regulatory instability in college athletics — NIL rights, the transfer portal, and the case for federal oversight. Writing it taught me something I keep coming back to: legal frameworks decide what deals are possible before anyone gets to the negotiating table.

Court internships at the LA Superior Court and the District Attorney's Office showed me how the system runs day to day across criminal, civil, family, and mental health proceedings. The 450 hours I put in with College Corps on hunger relief across LA County are the other half of it. I'd like to spend a career closing deals and still be useful to the communities I came from.

The ask

What I'm looking for

I start at Loyola this fall. Between now and my 1L summer, the most useful thing anyone can give me is twenty minutes — how a transactional group actually staffs juniors, what a first-year deal associate's week looks like, what you wish you'd known before OCI.

I've had those conversations with attorneys at Gibson Dunn, Kirkland & Ellis, and Willkie Farr, and every one of them changed how I'm planning the next three years. If any of the below is in your world, I'd like to hear from you.

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  • Practice areasSports and entertainment transactions, corporate and M&A, licensing and IP, NIL and college athletics regulation
  • Timing1L summer 2027 · 2L summer 2028 · open to informational conversations now
  • Based inLos Angeles — available in person across the county
  • Also usefulReferrals, panel and speaker introductions, and anything aimed at first-generation and Latino students entering the profession

Recognition

Honors