Our Team
Danni 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 “Super Lawyers” selection. 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
Danni has practiced in Southern California since 2015, regularly obtaining excellent results for clients. Examples include obtaining five acquittals or defense-favorable mistrials in a single year; obtaining acquittals and client-favorable results in a significant human-trafficking case (which involved showing the People’s principal witness was not credible); obtaining a mistrial and an acquittal in the same federal trial; and wining a recent two-week hearing that prevented the People from transferring her client to adult court to face homicide charges. Prior to 2015, Danni was a public defender in New York City, where she represented more than 1,400 clients. In her career, she has defended people facing practically the full range of criminal charges, including people facing the death penalty. She has also handled sensitive and high-stakes matters like pre-charge representation, as well as representations of extraditable foreign nationals.
Danni has also been an effective advocate for plaintiffs in civil matters, often focusing on cases raising deprivations of civil rights or harms against those with special needs. She regularly represents individuals in federal and state court on these matters.
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, who spent nine years in the Justice Department. As a prosecutor, he led complex multi-year investigations, often with an international scope. He handled cases concerning large-scale conspiracies and racketeering; conspiracy to commit murder; drug trafficking; money laundering; healthcare, securities, and other frauds; dark web cybercrime; crimes against children; unlawful firearms manufacturing and trafficking; interstate threats; and so on. 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 similar collateral matters.
Prior to his time in DOJ, Owen spent four years a large firm in New York City. He helped represent major financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, other law firms, and major American and international businesses. He also assisted with 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 of 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. As a clerk, Owen assisted Judge Hellerstein’s management of 13,000 cases brought by survivors of 9/11 victims, and first responders. He 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.
Max is an accomplished courtroom attorney. A veteran of no fewer than fifteen jury trials, she has obtained acquittals in multiple matters, and obtained multiple dismissals and reductions of charges through pretrial motion practice and presentations to prosecutors. In sentencing matters, she has long been recognized for her particular skill presenting clients as people worthy of empathy and grace.
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.
Max is a graduate of California Western School of Law and Boston University.