PD&A Expert Services for Litigators

Our process begins with an intake and conflict check, followed by a free consultation with a leading expert to discuss the issues in your case that may require expert input and to help you select the right experts for your case.  Call 949-723-2211 to learn how we can help you and your client.

If you are new to PD&A, you’ll probably be amazed at the difference between our experts and ordinary experts.  For routine, simple, and easy cases, you have plenty of options, but if you have a complex, high stakes, or high-profile case, we are your best option.  We’re careful in our vetting of experts, and they’re thorough in their preparation of reports and testimony.  As a consequence of our exceptionally high standards and performance, we’ve been selected to work on many of the most newsworthy cases of recent decades.

PD&A offers litigators consulting and testifying expert services in 10 major areas of litigation:

  • Criminal Litigation

  • Personal Injury

  • Medical Malpractice and Hospital Negligence

  • Employment Litigation

  • Child Welfare

  • Trusts and Estates

  • Vulnerable Adults and Elders

  • Corrections and Juvenile Justice

  • Negligent Security

  • Police Practices

During its 28 years of operation, PD&A has established itself as the premier source of outstanding experts in forensic psychiatry, forensic psychology, forensic neuropsychology, forensic neurology, and child welfare.  Our child welfare experts address the standard of care for social service agencies, schools, churches, camps, and other youth-serving organizations.  Our interdisciplinary team also includes top experts in human resources, security, security clearances, background screening, police practices, interviewing and investigation, criminology, cybercrime, homicide investigation, forensic pathology, child abuse pediatrics, emergency medicine, correctional medicine, nursing, podiatry, toxicology, biomedical engineering, criminal behavior analysis, threat assessment, crime scene analysis and reconstruction, blood spatter, DNA, fingerprints, forensic science, and life expectancy.

A few of the narrower issues on which we have outstanding specialists are:

Civil Litigation:

  • Mass torts

  • Psychological Trauma

  • Recovered/Repressed Memory

  • Sexual Abuse

  • Suicide

  • Violence Prevention and Risk Assessment

  • Testamentary Capacity and Undue Influence

  • Impaired Professionals

  • Civil Competence

  • Discrimination

  • Sexual Harassment

  • Wrongful Termination

  • Transgender Health

  • Fitness for Duty

Criminal:

  •  Insanity Defense and Diminished Capacity

  • Competence

  • Capital Litigation

  • Violent Crime

  • Sex Offenders

  • White Collar Crime

  • Stalking and Cyberstalking

  • Assassination

  • Serial Murder

  • Mass Murder

  • Extremism

  • Psychological Autopsy

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder


Call 949-723-2211 today for expert assistance with your most significant cases.

Simon Levshin