Expert Witness
Ellis Amdur offers Expert Witness Testimony and Consultation in two areas: Family Court and cases involving interactions between law enforcement and mentally ill individuals. In either situation, whether civil or criminal, Ellis is adamantly non-partisan and takes each case on its merits.
Ellis works as an assessor in child custody, neglect or abuse cases. This includes parenting assessments,
psychosocial assessments for both adults and children, and record review.
Cases regarding interactions between law enforcement and mentally ill individuals usually concern
interventions used to de-escalate a violent or potentially violent emotionally disturbed individual.
As a leading trainer in de-escalation of potential aggression, Ellis Amdur is qualified to provide real-world,
realistic review of such encounters, not from an academic perspective, but as someone who has faced violent
and imminently aggressive individuals in many encounters.
Record Review
Ellis Amdur has a many year history providing phenomenological assessments in cases relating to child abuse and neglect. He currently offers record review of case files, which may include psychiatric, psychological and psychosocial evaluations, as well as CASA/Guardian ad Litem and social services reports. He examines these records for bias, inconsistency or conclusions that are at variance with the actual data in the report. The results of such review are absolutely independent of the agenda of the contracting party, and will support or differ from the conclusions of the previous evaluator when that is warranted by the data in the report.
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