Alysa
Castro

Alysa Castro joined the firm as an associate in 2019. Alysa has extensive experience practicing civil litigation in both Oregon and Pennsylvania, where she has represented a variety of clients in matters ranging from transactions to complex litigation.

Alysa graduated with honors from Rutgers School of Law in 2012, where she served as a Marshal Brennan Fellow and Notes Editor for the Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy. She was also the recipient of the Mary Philbrook Public Interest Award and the Helen Levine Cohen Award. After graduating from law school, Alysa completed a judicial clerkship for Justice Ariel Rodriguez with the Supreme Court of New Jersey prior to joining private practice.

Prior to law school, Alysa completed a Master of Arts in English from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Oregon, receiving both degrees with honors. She is the author of Better in Theory: The Road to Prostitution Reform in Pennsylvania, which was published in the Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy in 2012.

Education

• Rutgers School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2012
• University of Toronto, M.A., cum laude, 2007

Admissions

• State Bar of Oregon
• Oregon District Court

Honors

• Mary Philbrook Public Interest Award
• Helen Levine Cohen Award

Associations

• Oregon State Bar
• Multnomah County Bar Association

Publications

• Better in Theory: The Road to Prostitution Reform in Pennsylvania, 9 Rutgers J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 37 (Spring, 2012)