Medical-Legal Consultation Services

Medical-Legal Services Program for Consultation and Expert Opinion in Psychiatry

Our nationally renowned academic Faculty offer expertise in psychiatry and behavioral health care. No matter your needs for expertise in psychiatry, our Faculty offer comprehensive consultative services for any legal, forensic, or consultative proceeding. You can learn more about our Faculty team on this page. Email us directly or complete our online inquiry form to connect with an expert. 

We are quickly responsive to all inquiries and will partner with you to deliver an evidence-based and unbiased opinions. Our Faculty experts combine clinical experience with deep, cutting-edge expertise in their fields to help you understand relevant standards of care, consider applicable regulations and statutes, and think practically and creatively about issues at hand. We render opinions in keeping with the highest ethical standards.

Our Faculty have wide-ranging experience in evaluation and consultation: 

Assessment of insanity acquittees for release and progression 

Assessment of sexual offenders

Asylum and immigration issues 

Consultation to organizations involving psychiatric services and forensic questions 

Correctional mental health care 

Competency and criminal responsibility including sanity in criminal proceedings. 

Competency or capacity assessments in civil contexts including testamentary, contract competency, medical aid in dying, and questions of guardianship. 

Dangerousness and risk assessments in civil and criminal situations including workplace and school violence and ERPO’s. 

Death penalty mitigation and appellate consultation 

Disability and workmen’s compensation assessments 

Ethical and legal issues in mental health care, practice, and organizations 

Expert assessments in neonaticide, infanticide, and other family related tragedy 

Fitness for duty evaluations in all professions 

Involuntary commitment and treatment 

Juvenile justice system evaluations including competency assessments, transfer evaluations, developmental and trauma assessments, student risk and threat assessments. 

Malpractice, personal injury, and workplace litigation 

Professional misconduct in health care and other professions 

Second opinions in forensic evaluations and standard of practice expertise 

Trauma and PTSD Assessments

Our Faculty have practical expertise managing individuals with a number of psychiatric conditions: