Our Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorneys

• Ambrosio E. Rodriguez – Founding attorney and former Senior Deputy District Attorney with over 13 years of prosecutorial experience, offering insider knowledge to build powerful criminal defense strategies.

• Sommer Salam – Managing partner and former prosecutor skilled in handling complex criminal cases from both sides of the courtroom, providing strategic defense insight.

• Joseph Kazazian – Associate attorney experienced in federal and state criminal defense, including white-collar, DUI, and serious felony cases, recognized as a rising talent in the field.

• The team’s combined background uniquely positions the firm to defend clients facing serious felony charges in Los Angeles and surrounding counties, leveraging former-prosecutor insight, trial experience, and defense-specific strategy.

• Clients benefit from a layered team structure: a founding attorney with top-level trial experience, a managing partner with former DA background, and an associate skilled in both federal and high-complexity state cases — offering depth and breadth of defense coverage.

After you or a loved one has been arrested, the only question you’ll have is: “Whom can I turn to and trust that has the training, expertise and knowledge to fight and defend me or my loved one.” With over 13 years as a Senior Deputy District Attorney, Ambrosio E. Rodriguez is the criminal defense attorney you turn to when everything is on the line.

Sommer Salam is a former criminal prosecutor who served as a District Attorney for over eight years before becoming a criminal defense attorney.

As a result of her substantial time at the D.A.’s office, Sommer Salam handled virtually every type of criminal case, from filing and investigation stages, to negotiating plea bargains, to motions and preliminary hearings, all the way through trial.

Joseph Kazazian is an Associate Attorney with The Rodriguez Law Group Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorneys. Mr. Kazazian brings with him a strong background in federal and state criminal defense, as well as defense of parents in child dependency proceedings. 

Mr. Kazazian has extensive knowledge of federal and state law and has worked on cases ranging from federal white-collar crimes to violent felonies, misdemeanors, and DUIs. Mr. Kazazian has worked on complex federal cases, often overseeing case management with millions of pages of evidence, loss amounts in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and helped prepare cases for jury trial.