Legal Nurse Consultant

Legal Nurse Consultant
A unique specialty of nursing
One who can translate complex issues
into clear simple terms understandable by
other lawyers, juries, and judges

A Legal Nurse Consultant
Bridges the gaps in the attorneys knowledge by meshing nursing with the law, maximizing the recovery of damages for the client, while saving the attorneys time and effort to develop the case

Mission Statement
To deliver high quality, low maintenance, cost effective legal nurse consultant services

Case Assessment

Identify causation issues, assessing damages/injuries and identifying contributing factors
Identifying and recommending potential defendants
Providing the attorney with study tools in the form of written reports

Case Assessment

Screen the case for merit
Save time and money by directing its resources to the core issues
Organize medical records for easy reference
Legal nurse consultants work with these records everyday
Point out areas of a patients course of treatment that is unusual
Identify problems with missing records, files or other data that should be located before taking the case to trial

Medical record summaries
Search the records and assist with discovery

A legal nurse consultant has a general feel for what is normal treatment
A legal nurse consultant can assist with the discovery requests by pointing out the types of records that should have be requested and asking for follow-up records that should be there
Legal nurse consultants can easily spot the procedures that should have been used or procedures that are clearly wrong for the complaint presented

Medical Literature Review

Legal nurse consultants are experts at deciphering what medical notes actually say
Legal nurse consultants know all the terms and abbreviations and can review and summarize the records quickly and easily

Preparation of Questions for Deposition and Trial

A nurses medical knowledge is much broader than his or her particular specialty
A legal nurse consultant can point out obvious problems with medical procedures, alternate procedures that should have been tried, and even general background information
A legal nurse consultant can advise attorneys on a wide variety of topics and can turn a confusing session with a witness into a fact-finding mission

Locate expert witness
Analyze expert reports and attend depositions of expert witnesses

Many times legal nurse consultants know these experts personally, or they can find others who do
A legal nurse consultant can guide the attorney in choosing the right expert for the job
It is more cost effective for attorneys to hire medical professionals to advise them on medical issues than it is to take the time and energy to train paralegals in medical terms and procedures