Not every useful expert role begins with testimony. In complex litigation, the earlier value may lie in consultation: identifying the psychiatric questions that actually matter, clarifying what evidence is missing, testing whether the case theory is clinically and behaviorally sound, and helping counsel avoid overstatement before the record is fully developed.

Bennett Blum, MD provides forensic psychiatric case consultation and expert witness services for attorneys in selected matters involving mental and testamentary capacity, undue influence, coercion, elder financial exploitation, fiduciary abuse, impaired consent, professional authority, and vulnerability to manipulation.

His work is especially relevant when the legal issue depends not only on what a person signed, transferred, consented to, or changed, but on what the person could understand, appreciate, resist, verify, and decide under the conditions that existed at the time.