Mark S. Silver, is a New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker and lawyer with a doctorate in psychology, masters in political science, and 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” Seventh Edition (2021) and “Psychosocial Evaluations and Consultation in Civil Litigation: Strategies to Understand and Humanize the Client” (2021).
Mr. Silver has lectured to thousands of lawyers throughout the United States on a wide range of forensic issues with case samples. Since 2002, Mark has worked as a consultant for law firms throughout the United States conducting psychosocial evaluations and writing formal forensic and mitigation reports in criminal, immigration, and personal injury cases. He has worked with thousands of clients from over 50 countries on various individual, family, and mental health issues. He has been qualified to provide expert testimony for numerous cases in Federal Immigration Court.
In this course, attorney and forensic expert Mark Silver delves into criminal mitigation strategies for the client suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder is among the least understood, and yet perhaps the most...
This course examines criminal mitigation in the instance of white-collar and middle-class defendants. Here, attorneys who may represent white collar criminal defendants gain an understanding of both the purpose and scope of mitigation. Additionally, ...
Many civil litigation attorneys (plaintiff and defense), particularly in the fields of personal injury and medical malpractice, struggle to understand the harm or injury their clients have suffered. In this course, forensic expert Mark Silver provide...
Many criminal defendants have suffered complex trauma that must be explicated through presentence reports by mitigation experts. This seminar will focus on major approaches to conceptualize the harm that many of our clients have suffered in ch...