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Daniel J. Rothman is an attorney in Des Moines Iowa. He was born in St. Louis Missouri in 1975 to attorney and politician Kenneth J. Rothman and politician Geri Rothman-Serot. He is a graduate of Drake University obtaining a degree in Rhetoric in 1998 and his J.D. from Drake Law School in 2001. He is a former prosecutor of 7 years having worked in the Story County Attorney office and as the senior member of the OWI Division of the Polk County Attorney Office until March of 2009.

Mr. Rothman is best known as the attorney of record for the Iowa Supreme Court case; State v. Walker, 804 N.W.2d 284 (Iowa, 2011). The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in Walker that "we hold that Walker's section 804.20 right to “see and consult [with his attorney] alone and in private” was violated when the Ankeny police rejected Rothman's request for a different room and restricted his consultation with Rothman to the videotaped booth with a solid glass partition separating the attorney and client, without any case-specific safety or security reason to justify those measures. The remedy for this violation is suppression of the breath-test results, regardless of prejudice or lack thereof. We reaffirm that this limited statutory right is limited to timely consultations that do not materially interfere with implied consent chemical testing procedures. Those holding custody of arrested persons should honor attorney requests for a private, barrier-free meeting room. Upon request, video and audio recordings should be turned off during the attorney consultation or the attorney should be allowed to temporarily block the camera. In any event, audio and video recording of the in-person attorney consultation shall not be admissible against the accused. Physical separation of the attorney and detained client and/or visual monitoring of their conference may be required upon a showing by the State of an individualized safety or security risk justifying such measures."Id. Mr Rothman works as an OWI/DUI attorney with the law firm of Mcenroe Gotsdiner Brewer and Steinbach. He can be contacted through the office website