EW #842 is a practicing psychiatrist with particular training and experience in the assessment of closed head injuries and brain damage, mental competence, psychic trauma consequent to sexual harassment and wrongful termination, psychiatric malpractice, and eye witness fallibility.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND APPOINTMENTS:
Clinical faculty, University of California, Department of Psychiatry
Past Adjunct Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law
Psychiatric practice, thirty years
Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Frequent court appearances throughout the United States
Psychiatric consultant: U.S. Department of Justice, F.A.A., U.S. Postal Service
Long experience assisting plaintiff and defense bars, criminal defense attorneys, prosecutors
Editor-in-Chief, Family Therapy

Author of six books, including Psychiatry in the Everyday Practice of Law, III, West Group

Author of 100 plus articles in such journals as the International Journal of Neuro-psychiatry, Archives of General Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, Judicature, Insurance Law Journal, Journal of the American Bar Association, Trial

Fee Schedule:
Retainer Fee: $1200.00
Hourly Rate: $400.00/hr
-Applies for forensic psychiatric work; reviewing records, examining litigants, consultation with attorneys, etc.
Deposition: $550.00/hr
-portal to portal with no minimum charge; an approximate time commitment is requested so that I may reshcedule patients effaciously
Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation: $1600.00
-this includes some basic psychometric testing and a medicolegal report. *if there is a huge box of recordds to review, depositions to read, collaterals to review, etc., the costs would be considerably more.*
Half-day in Court: $1800.00
Full-day in Court: $3500.00
-this includes full-day travel costs
Cancellation fee: $1000.00 applies in the event of cancellation of rescheduling with less than 48 hours' notice