by Mark D. Lerner, Ph.D.
Clinical & Forensic Psychologist
"In just days, Dr. Lerner provided critical questions that reinforced our legal strategy and obviated the need for costly protracted reevaluation."
Attorneys receive psychiatric, psychological, and other mental health evaluations—progress notes, session notes, medical records, education records, employment records, witness reports, police reports, and depositions.
Psych Record Review empowers attorneys to substantiate or refute emotional distress claims, pain, and suffering. This process can be instrumental in determining whether an event was the proximate cause of the plaintiff's alleged emotional and functional difficulties.
Psych Record Review enables plaintiff or defense counsel to identify strengths and weaknesses in clinical documentation, understand empirical psychometric test results, pinpoint critical findings, and provide unsettling questions that mental health experts do not want to hear.
Unlike a testifying expert or treating therapist, a forensic consultant functions under the cover of the attorney's work product. Since Psych Record Review does not involve evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of disorders, it falls outside the realm of the professional practice of psychology.
With his unique understanding of emotional distress claims coupled with nearly four decades of experience, Dr. Lerner extends confidential consultation services to attorneys nationwide.