Top 5 Legal Nurse Consultants (Ranked)

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MED LAW Consulting

For over a decade, Amy G. Fogelman, MD, has worked as a primary care physician and Harvard Medical School Instructor. She founded MED LAW Consulting after realizing there was a void to be filled in the medical and legal consulting field. Her firm utilizes this Primary Care model. Dr. Fogelman serves as the litigator’s own personal medical expert for the entire case as if the law firm had an in-house physician on staff. This role allows Dr. Fogelman to assist in medical-legal cases in various ways, beginning with case selection all the way through trial.

Her services include:

Medical expert matchingMedical record review/analysisWritten medical records summaryScreen cases for merit based on medical factsDiscourse on the breach of the standard of carePreparing a comprehensive medical literature reviewDeposition and trial preparation and supportNeutral medical expert for mediation or arbitration

What others are saying:

“Clear communication from the beginning, with properly spaced out follow-up. Highly recommend Med Law Consulting.”

Scott Diamond, DC (Chiropractor) Dedham, MA

Legal Nurse Consultants USA, LLC

Legal Nurse Consultants USA, LLC  was founded by Georgina Bell, RN BSN-Manager. With over 24 years of experience, she has developed a methodical way to evaluate medical claims. Each case gets directed to a healthcare professional who is actively practicing that particular specialty. As such, their nurses are abreast of the most recent healthcare trends and standards, enabling them to provide an up-to-date,  relevant opinion to move the lawsuit forward. Legal Nurse Consultants offers several different services, including:

Assessing medical recordsAnalyzing casesCoordinate and attend independent medical examinations (IMEs)Develop life care plansInterview plaintiff and defense clients, key witnesses, and expertsConsult with healthcare providersAssistance with discovery and court preparationNurse Life Care Planning (NLCP)

 

They can assist with a wide range of cases, including:

Medical malpracticeProduct liabilityWorker’s compToxic tort & Environmental CasesCriminal casesCases involving health, injury, or illness

 

While legal and medical fields are separate entities, sometimes they cross paths in significant ways. For law firms and solo attorneys to keep doing what they do best, they need to enlist the help of other experts such as legal nurse consultants. Selecting the right medical consulting firm will lighten your load and propel your cases forward to success.

The Role of Legal Nurse Consultants

Legal nurse consultants play several roles in the legal industry including:

Initial Case Screenings: Lawyers must evaluate the merit of a case before choosing to take on a client and their matter. It can sometimes be burdensome for lawyers to determine if a medical-related case has merit or not. A legal nurse consultant can review the particulars of a case and provide a report to the lawyer to help them decide to proceed with a client’s case or not. 

Medical Record Reviews: The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) can be difficult to understand when viewed on printed documents. Legal nurse consultants can perform a medical record review to decipher these records and the chronological order of events to help attorneys better understand the case.

Pinpoint the Standard of Care: Legal nurse consultants can help identify the most accurate and applicable standard of care for the client’s particular case and circumstances by combing through practice acts, regulatory resources and scientific literature. Most are also well-versed in many complex medical topics.

Provide an Expert Opinion: The opinion of a legal nurse consultant is highly regarded in medical malpractice and long-term care cases. They make good expert witnesses who can help explain the standard of care (and the deviation from or adherence to that standard) or medical pathophysiology. 

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Top 5 Legal Nurse Consultants (Ranked)





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Attorney at Law Magazine


June 5, 2024

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In many medical-related legal cases, there can be a seemingly endless volume of medical records that need to be reviewed. Without formal medical training, lawyers can find it difficult to efficiently sort through the documents to identify relevant information for their case. This can lead to prolonged case durations, increased costs, and uncertainty in litigation outcomes.

Hiring a legal nurse consultant will save you time and spare you the in-depth medical research these cases require. These experts allow you to keep your focus on practicing law. The industry is projected to grow substantially over the next several years, while the number of certified nurse consultants continues to decline. The need for qualified nurse consultants is on the rise.

While all opinions remain our own, this content contains links to companies we may be compensated by.

Young & Associates Legal Nurse Consultants

Young & Associates Founder Nytilia Young brings more than 10 years of experience as a registered nurse to her work as a distinguished healthcare expert. She earned a Master of Health Administration from Webster University and completed her undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Science in nursing, from Central Methodist University. She is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the American Nursing Association.

With a passion for leadership, quality improvement, and patient safety, Young saw an opportunity to bridge the gap between medical facts and legal strategy as a legal nurse consultant.

Today, Young & Associates offers a suite of services and a staff of legal nurse consultants to aid attorneys overseeing medical-related cases, including medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability, workers’ compensation, and environmental lawsuits. Their services are meticulously crafted to aid in the analysis, interpretation, and consultation of medical cases, ensuring that legal professionals can navigate the complexities of healthcare, including medical record reviews, litigation support, initial case screenings, timelines and expert witness liaisons.

Focusing on quality, accuracy, and reliability, Young and Associates aims to increase the practice and profits of lawyer clients by leveraging the time of their legal nurse consultants to save the lawyers time, money and allow them to focus on their legal case.





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Discovery NP Legal Consultants

Founded by an experienced RN of nearly 20 years and a Nurse Practitioner for the last 9 years, Discovery NP Legal Consultants is unique in that it utilizes nurse practitioners (NP) who have a specific clinical specialty area and who in most states clinically function more similar to physicians than to nurses. However despite this obvious clinical advantage, Discovery NP Legal Consultants’ NPs bill at RN rates. Their nurse practitioners have first-hand knowledge of the applicable standards of care and can help attorneys and law firms determine the merits of a given case. They rely on a round table approach, collaborating behind the scenes to ensure the practitioner assigned to your case has the most knowledge and clinical expertise specific to the case the medical malpractice attorney is representing.

They offer complete packages and a la carte services, including:

Comprehensive Flow: A sortable chronological and witness-oriented bird’s eye viewMaster Table of Contents: With a trained medical eye, our team teases out the individual records within lengthy PDFs and hyperlinks to each record. Distinguishes the relevant from the extraneous, cutting right to the chase and saving the attorney, the paralegal, and all expert witnesses hours of skimming time.Editorial Narrative Summary: Provides a medical professionals impression of the case and can include rationales and supportive literature upon requestCase-Custom Glossary: A searchable case-relevant reference sheet for medical terminology and abbreviationsDocument Request List: Let’s you know what’s missing, why you need it, and what facility has itDeposition Assistant: Questions developed by a nurse practitioner that will help you uncover the information that you needCloud-based and Attorney-Owned Work Product: Discovery NP provides its clients with one central document in a raw and editable format that litigators can use throughout the lifespan of their cases.HIPAA-compliant indirect access on the same retainer to “Consultants to the Consultants” for additional opinions including an ER physician, radiologist for second opinions on scans, pharmacist, certified nurse-midwife, and more.

What others are saying:

“The team used a collaborative approach. It was not just a case of two heads being better than one. Four or five specialized nurse practitioners reviewed the records and gave their assessment of the case. They also shared ideas about what information might be missing and what questions still needed to be answered. They were very knowledgeable.”

-Claire Nolan, Attorney at Law

Med Legal Pro

Tracy Liberatore founded Med Legal Pro after working as a physician’s assistant in many medical specialties and earning her Juris Doctorate. Her vast medical experience combined with in-depth legal knowledge to deliver professional results to many distinguished law firms. Her team of experts covers or includes the following:

A certified life care plannerForensic pathology & anatomic pathologyA board-certified clinical neuropsychologistA board-certified ENT physicianMedical cost projectionsMedical coding & billingPhlebotomy, laboratories, testingInfection control and infectious diseasesWound careRegulation compliance

Med Legal Pro offers a wide variety of medical and legal consulting services, including:

Organizing electronic and printed medical recordsAssembling one set of printed medical records in a binderProviding hospital and nursing home tabsCreating a detailed index of recordsIdentifying missing recordsPreparing chronologies with bates stamping and links to the record for use by a physician expertPreparing case summaries that can be used to locate the appropriate expert

What others are saying:

“The records we work with are frequently unorganized and voluminous, and the stakes are very high. Ms. Liberatore has been instrumental in this regard. She has consistently provided detailed medical chronologies analyzing and summarizing immense amounts of information, often under extreme time constraints. She is excellent at identifying issues that Opposing Counsel will pursue, and her work helps us respond. Lastly, she is an excellent resource who goes above and beyond the stated task by answering questions that we encounter in our representation. In the past, if she didn’t know the answer immediately, she has come back to us with research and analysis that helped us keep moving forward. She is an absolute asset to our team.

-Thomas F DellaFera Jr., Esq. Managing Attorney