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Rethinking Harm in Personal Injury and Negligence Cases: Using Psychosocial Evaluations to Uncover Harm
Produced on July 25, 2019
Course Information
Course Description
Many attorneys, particularly in the fields of personal injury and medical malpractice, struggle to understand the injury their clients have suffered. In this course, attorney and forensic expert Mark Silver provides the lawyer useful and humanistic tools to better conceptualize and understand the harms that a client has suffered. Consequently, the lawyer in question can advocate for their client in a more informed and holistic manner with a consideration for a broad range of harms that require just compensation.
Learning Objectives:
- Acquire a new tool to add to a personal injury (or medical malpractice) practice to evaluate the harms clients have suffered for evaluation purposes
- Identify the possible psychological effects of harm from an injury in a much broader manner
- Recognize how to advocate for your client by understanding a broader range of harms
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Faculty
Mark Silver
Psychiatric Social Worker
MARK S. SILVER is a lawyer and New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker, with a doctorate in psychology and a post-graduate certificate in family therapy. He is the author of several publications, including Handbook of Mitigation in Criminal and Immigration Forensics: Humanizing the Client Towards a Better Legal Outcome. Sixth Edition. (2017). Since 2002, Mark has worked as a consultant for law firms throughout the United States conducting psychosocial evaluations and writing formal reports in forensic and mitigation immigration and criminal cases. He has worked with thousands of clients from over forty countries on various individual, family, and mental health issues related to criminal conduct and deportation. He has also provided expert testimony in many of these cases in Immigration Court and lectures to lawyers throughout the United States on a wide range of forensic issues with case samples. He can be reached at MarkSilver1@cs.com or 917-608-1346.
Reviews
Very useful!
Excellent speaker.
Really good level of detail / overview.
very interesting CLE