Our Team
Danielle R. Iredale
Danni Iredale is one of Southern California’s premiere criminal-defense 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. When in her clients’ best interests, Danni 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. Danni represented more than 1,400 clients as a public defender and routinely obtained favorable outcomes for them, such as acquittals, pretrial dismissals, dispositions to reduced charges, and resolutions with no custodial time. In 2015, Danni returned home to San Diego and quickly established herself as a go-to attorney in Southern California. 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. And in federal court, she has recently obtained a misconduct-related mistrial and then an acquittal in the same case. She has also obtained dozens of dismissals, pleas to reduced charges, alternative dispositions, and outcomes with minimal or no custodial time. For nearly a decade, Danni has been selected by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California to serve on the Criminal Justice Act appointments panel. In 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California asked Danni to accept appointed representations in Los Angeles, and she now represents clients there too.
Danni brings an extraordinary depth of experience to her practice. She has represented clients in death-penalty matters in state and federal court. She has defended clients facing life sentences for alleged crimes of violence and crimes against children. She has represented targets of extradition from foreign countries on charges arising from alleged international drug trafficking conspiracies and multi-million-dollar frauds. She has navigated prosecutions for various forms of fraud and unlawful financial schemes. She has defended clients against a broad array of charges more commonly arising in state court, such as crimes of violence, sex crimes, arson, and others. And she has deftly handled the most sensitive and difficult aspects of criminal defense, such as litigation over whether a minor could be tried as an adult in a double homicide case. Danni 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.
Danni is a committed advocate for members of our community. She has led the fight to roll back the use of “Cal-Gangs,” a law-enforcement database used for years to “document” purported gang members in California. She continues to fight for clients who have been wronged, litigating civil rights, discrimination, and other claims of injury. And she has successfully obtained compensation for physical injuries her clients have experienced.
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 recognized by law enforcement and the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy HIDTA program for his efforts combatting organized crime. During his time in the Justice Department, he was a “go-to” prosecutor for some of the most important, complicated, and sensitive investigations.
After graduating law school in 2009, 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. In his latter clerkship, 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 raised multiple questions about the causes of injuries, the ability to recover from various defendants, professional responsibilities of attorneys, complex insurance coverages, and so on.
Beginning in 2011, Owen spent four years at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. At Cravath, Owen worked on months-long trials adjudicating billions of dollars of liability for environmental harms to major Midwestern rivers and ecosystems. He also 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 also 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 joined the Department of Justice in 2016. As a prosecutor, he led multi-year, international investigations into money and cryptocurrency laundering schemes, and long-term investigations into factions of major organized-crime groups such as 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 financial 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 prosecution for public corruption by a former U.S. congressman.
Owen has tried more than a dozen cases to verdict as a prosecutor; in one instance, he was asked to lead the retrial of a case that had deadlocked 11-1 in the defendant’s favor, and secured a conviction. He also obtained extraditions of defendants from foreign countries, and has substantial familiarity with OFAC sanctions and other controls. He has argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in several matters. As a defense attorney, he also accepts appointments from federal court in San Diego, and was also recently asked to accept appointments in Los Angeles too.
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.
Max’s career has been marked by highly successful representations across the entire breadth of the law. She recently represented a lead defendant in a federal prosecution alleging a large-scale scheme of forced slavery, resolving the case with dramatically reduced charges that reflected the government’s mistaken view of the facts. She also represents a lead defendant in an ongoing prosecution targeting a significant faction of a major Mexican drug cartel. 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, including a case arising from a “reverse sting” by law enforcement in a case alleging drugs and firearms trafficking. She has 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 often been recognized for her particular skill presenting clients as whole people worthy of empathy and grace, and not just the people alleged to have committed particular acts. 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 is “a major piece of the rehabilitative process for [her] clients.”
Max has also developed a reputation as a go-to attorney for clients who need particular sensitivity and discretion. For many years, individuals located outside the United States have turned to Max to advise and guide them through potential exposure issues tactfully and discreetly. Additionally, Max is 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.