Prosecutors in many jurisdictions find themselves facing larger caseloads and more cases involving child homicides, domestic homicides, and mental health defenses, often without sufficient training or experience. To assist agencies in serving the public, PD&A is offering the consultative services of experienced prosecutors who can support your prosecution of these difficult cases.
Read MoreIt’s hard to beat Avram Mack, M.D.’s credentials: His expertise is remarkable in both breadth and depth. Board certified in multiple psychiatric subspecialties, he is unique in being a leading physician in each of these fields. Dr. Mack is among a handful of experts in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (or “pediatric psychiatry”), and he has additional expertise in Addiction Medicine, Psychosomatic Medicine (or, hospital consultation psychiatry), Adult Psychiatry, and occupational injury and patient safety.
Read MoreContested wills, trusts, and estate plans are extremely expensive to litigate and can significantly erode the corpus of the estate while undermining the wishes of the testator. This is particularly true when late changes are made to an existing plan. Planning for the possibility of a will contest is both prudent and cost-effective.
Read MoreSadly, news reports regarding talented actor and singer Jussie Smollett have again thrust the topic of false allegations into public consciousness. False allegations are a regular, if uncommon, occurrence in educational institutions, workplaces, civil litigation, and the criminal justice system. Few make headlines, and when they do, they are often euphemistically described as “hoaxes,” which minimizes the risks and harms to the innocent that often result and the expenses and diversion of investigative resources they create.
Read MoreThe so-called hammer killer who fatally bludgeoned a Lakewood grandmother and three members of an Aurora family in the winter of 1984 started off as a burglar and evolved into a predator who crept into homes primarily to satiate his thirst for violence, says a former FBI profiler.
Read MoreDr. Newman is an expert on suicide risk assessment, hospital safety issues, and psychiatric issues in criminal cases. As a fellowship-trained forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Newman has experience as an expert witness regarding post-discharge suicide, inpatient suicide, ligature risks, seclusion and restraint issues, psychopharmacology, violence risk assessment, malingering, criminal and civil competencies, criminal responsibility, and conditional release assessments.
Read MoreNBC Dateline – Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Park Dietz shares how to spot the warning signs for increased risk of violent behavior in those around you.
Read MoreDr. Daniel Martell, a forensic neuropsychologist at Park Dietz & Associates, and assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at U.C.L.A., says that even though neuroscience is starting to tackle problems that were once thought to be unsolvable, like how psychopathy can be effectively treated, it has a long way to go before it’s ready for widespread implementation.
Read MoreThese men lash out at women, but really women are an excuse for their failures, says Dietz, an M.D. who has testified or consulted on major cases from John Hinckley Jr. to Jeffrey Dahmer. “It’s easy to blame ‘the women who will go with anyone but me,’ ” he says.
Read MoreDr. Shelby is a trauma psychologist, with expertise derived from a career dedicated to the study, assessment, and treatment of trauma survivors. Dr. Shelby is an Associate Clinical Professor at UCLA’s Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in the David Geffen School of Medicine and was honored to serve as the 2017-2018 Drake Guest Professor and Distinguished Fellow at Kobe College in Hyogo, Japan, where she resided, taught, and conducted research.
Read MoreThe hedge fund star Bill Ackman had taken to a stage in midtown Manhattan and accused the company of being a pyramid scheme, waging $1 billion that the company was a fraud. Shares plunged. The media went wild and some 3,000 miles away, inside the company's Los Angeles headquarters, CEO Michael Johnson was shell-shocked.
Few inside the glass-enclosed bubble of Herbalife's HQ had even heard of Ackman, no less what he might be up to in calling the company out so publicly.
It wanted to fight back, but how?
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