Diego Castillo

Los Angeles, CA1 years experience

About Diego Castillo

Diego Mulato Castillo is an Associate Attorney at the Dolan Law Firm, PC, focusing on personal injury. He joined the firm in 2025 after previously interning there in summer 2023.

Born in El Salvador, Castillo immigrated to the United States in 2000 and grew up in Sonoma County, California. He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) in May 2024. His prior experience includes employment law and government benefits representation.

He is described as having a steadfast dedication to ensuring that individuals are adequately compensated for the injustices they face, with an approach rooted in compassion and commitment to his clients. He works out of the firm's Los Angeles office.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Dolan Law Firm, PC Personal Injury Lawyers

These results are credited to Dolan Law Firm, PC Personal Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$36 millionSettlement

Chris Dolan represented the surviving Tran family and reached a $36 million settlement with Alameda County after an off-duty deputy who had failed his psychological exam shot Maria and Benison Tran in their Dublin home.

Alameda County, CA · 2026Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$18.5 millionVerdict

An Alameda County jury awarded $18,574,222 to Juanita Cerrato, who suffered a traumatic brain injury after she swerved to avoid a tractor-trailer left blocking her lane on a Fresno highway near midnight.

Alameda County Superior Court, CA (Fresno crash) · 2025Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$17.2 millionVerdict

A Sacramento County jury awarded $17,220,807 to Lethesia Guzman, whose car stalled on the Yolo Causeway before a Morning Star tomato truck set off the chain-reaction crash that killed her fiance and left her with catastrophic injuries.

Sacramento County Superior Court, CA · 2024Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$3.26 millionVerdict

A federal jury found that a City of Roy, Washington police officer used excessive force when he shot two unarmed men riding an off-road vehicle during a 2019 snowstorm, awarding $3.26 million.

U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington (Tacoma) · 2021Civil RightsRead the full story →
Settlement

Christopher Dolan secured a confidential settlement from Uber in what is widely described as the first wrongful-death suit filed against the company over a driver's conduct, after a New Year's Eve 2013 crosswalk collision in San Francisco killed a 6-year-old girl.

San Francisco Superior Court, CA · 2015Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Juris Doctor (J.D.), 2024

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California

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