Practice Areas
Focused Forensic Psychiatry Practice Areas.
LFPS provides specialized forensic psychiatric evaluation and consultation across a focused set of practice areas. Our focused approach ensures deep fluency in the specific legal standards and medical nuances required for each domain.
Criminal Responsibility
Rigorous evaluation of mental state at the time of the offense, applying jurisdiction-specific legal standards to complex clinical presentations.
Traumatic Brain Injury
Objective assessment of the psychiatric and neurocognitive sequelae of head trauma, distinguishing organic pathology from functional overlay.
Testamentary Capacity
Retrospective analysis of cognitive and psychiatric functioning to determine capacity at the time of estate document execution.
Undue Influence
Evaluation of psychological vulnerability and susceptibility to coercion in contested probate and elder law matters.
Emotional Damages
Evidence-based assessment of alleged psychological injury, focusing on causation, prognosis, and the differentiation of pre-existing conditions.
Mental Health Causation
Systematic analysis of the causal relationship between specific events and subsequent psychiatric pathology.
Mental Health Nexus
Evaluation of the connection between an individual's diagnosed psychiatric condition and specific legally relevant behaviors or outcomes.
Death Penalty
Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation for capital mitigation, addressing complex developmental, neurobiological, and clinical factors.
Malingering Assessments
Sophisticated, data-driven evaluation of symptom validity and the intentional feigning or exaggeration of psychiatric illness.
Mass Torts
Scalable, consistent psychiatric assessment and consultation for complex, multi-plaintiff litigation.
Family Law, Parent-Child, and Child-Adolescent Consultation
Forensic psychiatric consultation in matters involving children, adolescents, and families, with board-certified child and adolescent psychiatric expertise.
Capacity, Guardianship & Conservatorship
Psychiatric evaluation of cognitive and clinical capacity for guardianship, conservatorship, and related vulnerable adult proceedings.