Forensic Services

Forensic Services

• Areas of Focus
• Area of specialty is the application of neuropsychology and forensic psychology
• Focus Area Overview
• Laws / Procedures
• Firm / Experience

Areas of focus:

 Assessments in Employment, Personal Injury, Family Law and Criminal Domains:

Wide spectrum of Forensic and Clinical Services including employment and workplace issues, personal injury, child custody, criminal and probate. Extensive experience in court testimony in Civil and Criminal trials and arbitrations.

• Forensic  Assessments in Personal Injury
• Expert on Effects of Electrocution and Brain Trauma
• Competency to Execute Wills
• Effects of Physical and Psychological Trauma and Brain Injury
• Child Custody
• Expert in Bonding Studies
• Assessments for Military Command
  • Assessment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Assessment of Battle Trauma
  • Assessment of Fitness for Duty Evaluations
  • Standard of Core Assessments

Area of specialty is the application of neuropsychology and forensic psychology

Criminal Courts:

Forensic Assessments Pertaining to:

• False Confessions
• Eyewitness Identifications
• Criminal Intent
• Effects of Brain Injury on Behavior
• Sanity
• Competency
• Sex Offending Allegations – Analysis of investigative interviews, child memory
• Critique of child investigative interviews
• Cognitive assessment
• Brain pathology and behavior

Family Courts:

• Psychological evaluation in Personal Injury Matters
• Expert in bonding studies
• Custody and visitation recommendations
• Second opinion on custody evaluations

Civil Courts:

• False memories and recovered memories
• Effects of Physical and Psychological Trauma
• Competency to execute wills
• Effects of physical and psychological trauma
• Effects of pornography on minors
• Neuropsychological assessment of Brain Injury
• Assessment of reliability of child investigative interviews

Law Enforcement:

• Fitness of Duty Assessments
• Member of Orange County Sheriff, Professional service reserve.
• Member of crisis team assisting officers with involuntary holds
• Input to Orange County Sheriff in Homeland Security Matters
• Assisted officers in field to manage and approach unstable subjects
• Please contact us to arrange for initial 2 hour consultation and fee estimate

 

Assessment of Employment and Workplace Issues:

• Assessment of unlawful termination complaints
• Certification
• Assessement of Sexual Harrashment

• Expert testimony in administrative law courts
• Expert forensic mental health evaluations to assist in assessment of accusations and generating of mitigating factors
• Expert forensic assessment of California DMV matters (DUI)
• Forensic mental health assessments to assist with restoration of driving privileges in DUI matter
• Expert testimony in DMV hearings on issues pertaining to DUI

Focus Area Overview:

To provide forensic neuropsychological and clinical assessment in matters of workplace and employment issues, personal injury, criminal, physical and psychological trauma. Firm foundations of the science utilized relating to criminal, family law, civil matters and personal injury. Professional presentation of scientific data to fact finders and juries. Procedure is initial consultation provided to counsel to define nature and scope of problem. Application of findings to referral issues. After initial consultation, a plan for the evaluation, psychological and cognitive testing is presented.

Laws / Procedures:

General procedure is for referral source to provide all medical and educational relevant records. Third party information relevant to referral issues is quiet helpful in conjunction with evaluation approach of using multiple data sources. This approach can contribute greatly to reliability and validity of the forensic assessment.

 

Firm / Experience:

• Expert Peer Reviewer, California Board of Psychology, Enforcement Divison
• 30 years of experience in practice of forensic neuropsychology and clinical psychology.
• Forensic assessment expert meant for plaintiff and defense counsel
• Defense, prosecution and court appointed expert
• Expert medical reviewer
• Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Keck School of Medicine, USC.
• Forensic assessments for fitness of duty
• Individual and family therapy for USC referred patients.
• Peer reviewer, guest lecturer, guest editor, lecturer symposium American College of Forensic Psychology
• Expert Testimony contributed to new trials and reversal of criminal convictions
• Independent Medical Examiner, State of California
• Court appointed expert to review treatment facility program
• Member Orange County Sheriff, Professional service reserve
• USC referral resource for community
• Field Internship Supervisor, UCLA internship program (2018).