Every legal dispute has a psychological dimension.
Beneath every lawsuit, negotiation, crisis, or public controversy lies a story shaped by motivations, fears, ambitions, identities, resentments, perceptions, and competing narratives.
Understanding those forces can improve decision-making, strengthen positioning, increase strategic clarity, and create opportunities that might otherwise remain hidden. Litigation Strategy Partners helps legal teams see those dimensions more clearly.
Having practiced psychiatry for twenty-five years and worked on many high-profile civil and criminal matters, Dr. Ablow identifies the themes and events that accusers, witnesses, and opposing counsel wish to gloss over, as well as the specific parts of their perspectives and arguments that will not make core psychological sense to judges and juries.
The strongest litigation strategies often emerge from understanding not only the law, but the people involved.
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Psychological themes conveyed to a court
Cases in which psychiatric or psychological themes or histories must be made clear to a judge or jury.
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The motivations of a party
Cases in which strategy turns on thinking through the motivations of a plaintiff or defendant.
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A jury fair to the client's circumstances
Cases in which a jury must be selected which is more likely to be fair to the attorney's client.
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A look inside the mind of opposing counsel
Understanding, defusing and countering the psychological strategies being employed by opposing counsel in complex civil litigation.