The Rodriguez Law Group

About The Rodriguez Law Group

The Rodriguez Law Group is led by founding partner Ambrosio E. Rodriguez, who was admitted to the California bar in June 1999, according to State Bar records. The firm says he spent more than 13 years as a Senior Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles County, where he led the Sexual Assault/Child Abuse Unit and later served in the Homicide Unit, including on death penalty cases. According to his biography, he earned his law degree at Georgetown University.

Managing partner Sommer Salam, admitted in December 2006 according to State Bar records, is described by the firm as a former prosecutor with more than eight years at the District Attorney's office, handling mainly domestic violence cases in her final years there, after earlier work at a civil litigation firm in Newport Beach. The firm says she leads plea negotiations and pre-trial motions. Associate attorney Joseph Kazazian, admitted in June 2020, has a background in state and federal criminal defense and in representing parents in child dependency proceedings, according to the firm.

The firm says it practices criminal defense only and does not take civil lawsuits, divorces or traffic infractions. Its practice pages cover homicide, federal crimes, sex crimes, domestic violence, assault, drug crimes, DUI, theft, juvenile cases and expungement, in state and federal court. Its Spanish-language page says it takes cases in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Diego counties.

The office is at 626 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 460, in downtown Los Angeles, and the firm lists hours of 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day. It offers a free, confidential consultation. The website has a Spanish-language section; according to State Bar records and the firm's biographies, its attorneys also speak Arabic and Armenian.