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Psychological Insights
for High-Stakes Litigation

Strategic advisory for attorneys and legal teams on the human dynamics that can shape complex litigation, including credibility, motivation, persuasion, narrative, reputation, and perception.

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25+ Years · Psychiatric PracticeHigh-Profile Civil & Criminal MattersRetained by Counsel, Not Parties

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The Founder

Keith Ablow, MD

Psychiatrist · Author · Strategic Advisor

Portrait of Dr. Keith Ablow, psychiatrist, author, and strategic advisor

Founder

Litigation Strategy Partners, strategic advisory to counsel.

Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist, New York Times bestselling author, nationally recognized media commentator, and strategic advisor whose work has focused for decades on human behavior, conflict, persuasion, credibility, identity, motivation, and public perception.

Through Litigation Strategy Partners, Dr. Ablow provides confidential strategic advisory services to attorneys, legal teams, executives, public figures, and organizations navigating complex disputes and reputation-sensitive matters. His role is not to provide legal advice, but to help legal teams better understand the human dynamics that often influence litigation, negotiation, witness perception, credibility, reputation, and strategic positioning.

Background

01Brown University, Neuroscience, magna cum laude
02Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
03New York Times Bestselling Author
04Psychiatry Residency, New England Medical Center Hospitals
05New York Times Bestselling author of 19 books
06National Media Commentator, 1,000+ appearances

Distinguishing Perspective

Attorneys have valued Dr. Ablow's ability to unearth the unspoken, and often complex, motivations of opposing counsel, accusers, and witnesses whose interests run against their clients. Across twenty-five years of psychiatric practice and many high-profile civil and criminal matters, he identifies the themes and events those parties wish to gloss over, as well as the parts of their arguments that will not make core psychological sense to judges and juries.

Neuroscience and medical training
Twenty-five years of psychiatric practice
High-profile civil and criminal matters
Unearthing the unspoken motivations of opposing counsel, accusers, and witnesses
National media and communications experience
Bestselling authorship

In case after case, attorneys have told Dr. Ablow that his input shaped the strategy, in picking juries, in examining and cross-examining witnesses, in uncovering inconsistencies in testimony, and, wherever psychiatric factors are present, in finding the crucial insight in depositions, medical records, family reports, and witness statements that no one else had seen.

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Sample Cases

Giving attorneys unparalleled access to psychological/psychiatric perspectives that only an experienced forensic professional with Dr. Ablow's extraordinary instincts, narrative sensibilities and state/federal case experience can provide.

Four situations, above all, are where that work changes the outcome.

Jury selection

In cases where a jury must be chosen, Dr. Ablow helps identify the jurors most likely to be fair to the attorney's client in light of that defendant's or plaintiff's particular circumstances, not in the abstract.

Record review

Wherever psychiatric factors are present, Dr. Ablow finds the insight others miss, in depositions, medical records, family reports, and witness statements, and the lines of questioning most likely to bring favorable narratives to light.

Expert testimony

Whether you represent the defendant or the plaintiff, an opposing psychiatric expert can usually be countered once a detailed assessment of the available records is conducted. Dr. Ablow reads those records for what they omit as much as what they claim.

Psychological strategy

Understanding, defusing and countering the psychological strategies being employed by opposing counsel in complex civil litigation.

Built for counsel who value a searing look into the mind of any participant in criminal or civil litigation.

Especially in matters where psychiatric themes must be conveyed to a court, where strategy turns on the motivations of a party, or where a jury must be chosen to weigh a client's unique circumstances fairly.