My name is MARK SOLOMON SILVER. I am a New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I have a Combined Specialist Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science from the University of Toronto and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario. I have also completed a Master of Social Work at the University of Toronto, a post-graduate Certificate Program in Family Therapy at Smith College, and a Doctor of Psychology at the Southern California University of Professional Studies. In addition, I hold a Juris Doctor from the City University of New York, Queens College, and I was admitted to practice law in the states of New York and New Jersey and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

I previously had a private practice in psychotherapy and healthcare consultation. For about two and a half years, I served as the Quality Assurance Coordinator for Mishkon, a residential and homecare program for persons with developmental disabilities and mental retardation. I have worked in mental health for the inpatient psychiatric unit at North General Hospital and the New Hope Guild outpatient clinic. My clinical internships were in day hospital psychiatry and general outpatient psychotherapy.

Additionally, I have published many papers on forensic social work and mental health practice in criminal and immigration consultation for attorneys in various academic and practice journals. I have provided lectures to thousands of lawyers on various aspects of these subjects. I am the author of Handbook of Mitigation in Criminal and Immigration Forensics: Humanizing the Client Towards a Better Legal Outcome. Sixth Edition. (2017). It is the only book written in the United States that provides chapter by chapter outlines of clinical evaluation, criteria, and challenges that the criminal and/or immigration lawyer may encounter.

Since 2002, I have worked as a consultant for law firms throughout the United States conducting psychosocial evaluations and writing formal reports in forensic and mitigation immigration and criminal cases. To date, I have worked on more than 2000 such cases in forensic immigration and criminal practice and consultation. I have worked with clients from about forty countries throughout the world on various individual, family, and mental health issues related to criminal conduct and immigration cases. I have also provided expert testimony in many of these cases. A full curriculum vitae is available upon request.