Our section assists with legal inquiries, evaluations and litigation needs. Our clinicians have specialized training in multiple disciplines, including forensic psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry.
Our areas of expertise include the following:
Civil
- Risk assessment/risk mitigation (including workplace, educational)
- Fitness for duty
- Asylum seeking
- Malpractice claims
- Testamentary capacity
- Guardianship
- Nursing home evaluations
- Disability claims
- Civil/constitutional rights
- Child custody
- EAP referrals
- Suicide or self-harm risk assessment
- Mental and emotional damages
Criminal
- Juvenile criminal justice
- Competency to stand trial
- Competency to understand or waive Miranda rights
- Criminal competence - insanity defense
- Diminished capacity
- Criminal mitigation
- Mitigation factors for execution
- Violence risk assessment
- Sex offense evaluations
- Hate crime
Contact Us
1645 W. Jackson Blvd
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: (312) 942-8573
Email: louis_kraus@rush.edu