Medical-Legal Consultation Services

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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:

• Adjustment and anxiety disorders
• Adjustment and anxiety disorders 
• Adverse events in healthcare settings 
• Agitation 
• Antisocial personality disorder 
• Bipolar disorder 
• Borderline personality disorder 
• Child and adolescent psychiatry 
• Competency evaluations 
• Correctional care 
• Depression 
• Dementia 
• Eating disorders 
• Electroconvulsive therapy 
• Emergency and crisis care 
• Malingering 
• Neuropsychiatric assessments 
• Neuropsychological assessments 
• Schizophrenia, schizoaffective, and delusional disorders 
• Suicide 
• Trauma and PTSD 
• Traumatic brain injury 
• Violence and Violence Risk Assessment