Owen Roth

Owen Roth is a former federal prosecutor who spent nine years in the Justice Department. As a prosecutor he led complex, multi-year investigations, often international in scope, and learned the inner workings of the government’s most serious cases from the inside — the kind of knowledge that now serves the people sitting across from it.

His prosecutions reached large-scale conspiracies and racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder, drug trafficking, money laundering, healthcare and securities fraud, dark-web cybercrime, crimes against children, unlawful firearms manufacturing and trafficking, and interstate threats. He tried more than a dozen cases to verdict and litigated before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals several times. He has also handled multiple extraditions and the collateral matters that come with them.

Before the Justice Department, Owen spent four years at a major corporate firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York, where he helped represent leading financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, other law firms, and major American and international businesses. He worked on internal investigations implicating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and compliance with U.S. sanctions, export controls, securities regulations, and antitrust laws. He also provided pro bono representation to juveniles seeking permanent status after being abandoned in the United States.

Owen served as a law clerk to the Honorable Allyson K. Duncan (ret.) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and to the Honorable Alvin K. Hellerstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. For Judge Hellerstein, he helped manage a docket of 13,000 cases brought by survivors and first responders of the September 11 attacks — work that left him with a lasting sense of what is at stake when the law meets people at their most vulnerable.

He teaches as an adjunct instructor at the University of San Diego School of Law and with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. Owen is a 2009 magna cum laude graduate of Cornell Law School and a 2004 graduate of Kenyon College.