Legal Nurse Consulting

Have the Medical Expertise available on site, to assist you and your staff understand the highly complex medical aspects of your files.

Benefits: Act as a liason by screening cases, analyzing and summarizing medical records, defining standards of care, providing medical research, preparing and responding to discovery requests, attending independent medical evaluations, and identifying the types of expert witnesses that will be necessary in case preparation. Legal Nurse Consultants provide the attorney with an Expert Witness, that is uniquely qualified to educate jury or judge on the facts of record, that can have a profound impact on the overall testimony.

Legal Nurse Consultants are Experts - LNCs are Registered Nurses, with advanced training, who can apply their clinical experience, education and expertise to health care issues by analyzing medical facts and how they relate to legal concepts. The most obvious area where LNCs apply their expertise is in medical records review where they prepare summaries, reports and chronologies to determine the merits of cases. LNCs often prepare charts, slides, models, and videos to assist in the visual presentation of cases.

Why use a LNC instead of a Paralegal? Legal nurse consultants differ from paralegals, as LNCs are clinically trained versus the legally trained paralegal. LNCs have skills and varied medical experience in a variety of disciplines and provide specialized knowledge of the health care system.

Cost Benefit: Hiring an LNC versus a doctor is more cost efficient and accessible to an attorney. A Legal Nurse Consultant can be a very valuable and efficient resource for the well prepared Attorney. Services can be provided on an hourly or daily rate basis.

Types of Cases an LNC can consult on:

• Medical Malpractice
• Personal Injury
• Product Liability
• Environmental Cases
• Worker’s Compensation
• American’s with Disability Act (ADA) Cases
• Nursing Home Litigation
• Risk Management
• Insurance Cases
• Negligence
• Wrongful Death