Legal Nurse Consulting

The primary role of the legal nurse consultant is to evaluate, analyze, and render informed opinions on the delivery of health care and the resulting outcomes. For nearly 20 years, legal nurse consultants have acted as collaborators and strategists, offering support in medically-related litigation and other medical-legal matters in the variety of practice areas.   Nurses have more hands on experience with medical records than any other healthcare provider and are well suited to provide critical analysis of health care facts and issues in areas such as medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability and toxic torts, workers' compensation, criminal law, elder law, and more.

Discover the benefits of engaging the services of a Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC). It can easily mean the difference between winning and losing your client's case.

Legal Nurse Consultants provide the following services to attorneys:

Medical Record Analysis

• Identify, locate, review and interpret medical records, hospital
   policy and procedures, other such documents

• Organize, tab and paginate medical records for easy reference

• Prepare chronologies of the pertinent events of the case

• Summarize, translate and interpret medical records

• Identify possible medical record tampering

• Screen cases for merit

• Locate applicable standards of care

• Identify adherences to and deviations from the standard of care

• Assist in assessing damages and identify contributing factors

• Identify and recommend potential defendants

Case Support

• Research and summarize medical and nursing literature

• Analyze the validity of research studies relied on by all parties

• Prepare a Life Care Plan to determine the cost of future services related to the case

Medical Liaison

• Interview plaintiff and defense clients, key witnesses and experts

• Consult with healthcare providers

• Attend independent medical examinations (IMEs)

• Meet with other consultants and service providers on the attorney's behalf

Expert Testimony and Witness Preparation

• Identify types of testifying experts needed for the case

• Secure the services of appropriate expert witnesses for deposition/trial

• Assist in the preparation of witnesses and experts for deposition/trial

• Serve as an expert witness with regard to Nurse Life Care Planning

Discovery and Court Preparation

• Prepare interrogatories

• Analyze and summarize depositions and past testimony

• Create medical exhibits and other demonstrative evidence

• Attend courtroom proceedings when relevant

• Assist in resolution of cases through alternative dispute resolution, such as arbitration and mediation.