Our Team
Danielle R. Iredale
Danni Iredale is one of Southern California’s premiere attorneys. She has been recognized as “Trial Attorney of the Year” by the Criminal Defense Bar Association of San Diego, and repeatedly as a “SuperLawyers” selection since 2020. She has tried nearly thirty cases to verdict, often with favorable outcomes. She has also obtained numerous favorable outcomes by persuading prosecutors not to bring charges, or to agree to substantially reduced charges.
From 2011 to 2015, Danni served as a public defender with New York County Defenders, New York City’s principal public-defender service, where she represented more than 1,400 clients. In 2015, she returned home to San Diego and established herself as a go-to attorney. She obtained five acquittals or defense-favorable mistrials in a single year. In a major human-trafficking case, her advocacy resulted in the People’s cooperating witness getting a more significant sentence than her client, who was acquitted on the most serious charges. In September 2025, she prevailed after a two-week hearing against the District Attorney’s efforts to transfer her juvenile client to face homicide charges as an adult. In federal court, she has obtained a misconduct-related mistrial and an acquittal in the same case, and has obtained multiple pretrial dismissals based on successful litigation strategy. Danni has also obtained dozens of dismissals, pleas to reduced charges, alternative dispositions, and outcomes with minimal or no custodial time. She has also successfully avoided capital punishments for clients in both state and federal court.
Danni brings an extraordinary depth of experience to I&R. She has represented defendants accused of the most serious offenses in both state and federal court. She has represented individuals extradited, targeted for extradition, and expelled foreign countries. She has also developed substantial expertise as an investigator, developing records for her clients that have persuaded prosecutors, juries, and judges to provide substantially more favorable results for clients than the initial charges would have carried. In one recent matter, legal arguments Danni made at trial were ultimately taken up and considered by the U.S. Supreme Court. Additionally, Danni is a dogged pursuer of remedies for clients who have been denied adequate medical care, been victims of excessive force, and have otherwise been deprived of their civil rights.
Danni is a 2011 graduate of Brooklyn Law School and a 2007 graduate of the University of California-Los Angeles.
Owen Roth
Owen Roth is a former federal prosecutor with nearly a decade’s worth of experience investigating and prosecuting complex and substantial criminal activity. He has been repeatedly recognized for his efforts combatting organized crime and was a “go-to” prosecutor for some of the most important, complicated, and sensitive investigations during his time in the Justice Department.
Owen joined the Department of Justice in 2016. Over his time as a prosecutor, he led multi-year, international investigations into money and cryptocurrency laundering schemes, and long-term investigations into groups like longstanding drug cartels and California prison gangs. He investigated and prosecuted cases concerning complex conspiracies and racketeering activity; conspiracy to commit murder; healthcare, securities, and other forms of fraud; "darkweb" and cybercrime activity; crimes against children; unlawful firearms manufacturing and trafficking; immigration offenses; interstate threats; and so on. He also assisted with matters like the public-corruption prosecution of a then-sitting U.S. congressman. Owen also tried more than a dozen cases to verdict; in one instance, he led the retrial of a case that had deadlocked 11-1 in the defendant’s favor, and secured a conviction. He obtained extraditions of defendants from foreign countries. He has substantial familiarity with OFAC sanctions and other controls. And he has argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in several matters.
Prior to joining DOJ, Owen spent four years at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where he worked on months-long trials adjudicating billions of dollars of potential liability. He helped represent major financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies facing litigation under the False Claims Act, other large law firms, and major American and international businesses. Owen assisted with internal investigations into possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and compliance with U.S. sanctions, export controls, securities regulations, and antitrust laws. He provided pro bono representation of juvenile immigrants 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. As a clerk, Owen assisted Judge Hellerstein’s management of the 13,000 cases brought by survivors of 9/11 victims, and first responders who suffered physical and respiratory injuries responding to the attacks. These cases, some of the most complicated personal-injury matters litigated in the last several decades, raised multiple questions about the causes of injuries, the ability to obtain compensation from various defendants, the professional responsibilities of attorneys, complex insurance coverages, and so on.
Owen is a 2009 magna cum laude graduate of Cornell Law School and a 2004 graduate of Kenyon College.
Maxine I. Dobro
Maxine Dobro is Of Counsel to Iredale & Roth. Max comes to I&R with more than four decades of invaluable experience practicing criminal law, bringing the wisdom and perspective that can only come from a career of top-flight advocacy. She is a dean of the criminal-defense bar in Southern California.
In the course of her career, Max has represented hundreds of clients facing the full range of criminal charges. Her prior representations have included cases charging racketeering and gang activity; international and nationwide drug trafficking conspiracies; alien-trafficking conspiracies; Medicare, securities, mail, and wire frauds; fraudulent billing schemes; murder; rape; arson; kidnapping; human trafficking; robbery and armed bank robbery; burglary; domestic violence; firearms trafficking; crimes against children; and many other offenses. In these and countless other matters, she has developed unmatched experience and expertise in both federal and state cases. She too has developed substantial expertise helping clients located outside the United States navigate our criminal-justice system.
Max is an accomplished courtroom attorney. A veteran of no fewer than fifteen jury trials, she has obtained acquittals in multiple matters, including a case arising from a “reverse sting” by law enforcement in a case alleging drugs and firearms trafficking. She also obtained multiple dismissals and reductions of charges through pretrial motion practice and presentations to prosecutors about her clients. And in sentencing matters, she has long been recognized for her particular skill presenting clients as people worthy of empathy and grace. A former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in San Diego put it best when she told a client that Max “has done one of the finest sentencing presentations on your behalf that the Court has seen in perhaps forever.” Another federal judge observed that Max has been “a major piece of the rehabilitative process for [her] clients.”
Max is also an expert at understanding and representing complex mental-health issues that can affect a case, such as issues around insanity, mental decompensation, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and similar issues. She knows how to identify and develop the record around these issues, and how to present them to courts effectively on her clients’ behalf. Max approaches these matters with uncommon legal skill and empathy, giving her clients a needed sense of dignity as she fights for their interests. She provides I&R with an added depth of wisdom few other firms can offer.
Max is a graduate of California Western School of Law and Boston University.