Legal Nurse Consulting Services

MLNC provides the expertise of both the medical and nursing aspects which critical to achieving a successful outcome for your clients. At MLNC, we can put that kind of mastery to work for your legal practice. Our professional services will enable you to develop your cases quickly and cost-effectively.

Services Available

• Serve as a nurse expert witness
• Analyze and present case strengths and weaknesses
• Professionally evaluate cause and damages sustained
• Present at client interviews and intervenes when necessary
• Perform analysis of client medical records
• Attend independent medical exams and produce a comprehensive report
• Organize pertinent data in chronological order and highlight areas of concern
• Perform medical and case specific research
• Assist attorneys to prepare for deposition
• Search for standards of care observed in medical documentation for malpractice cases
• Assist to resolve ethical issues
• Build the attorney's medical library

Assess Medical Records and Analyze the Case

• Identify/review relevant medical records, policies/procedures, essential documents/tangible items
• Organize, translate, and tab medical records
• Prepare chronologies of medical events
• Investigate cases for merit, damages, and injuries
• Define deviations/adherences to applicable standards of care
• Identify factors that caused/contributed to alleged damages/injuries
• Identify/recommend potential defendants
• Identify tampering of medical records
• Develop written reports for attorney study tools

Support the Attorney's Case

• Conduct literature searches and integrate literature and standards/guidelines into case analysis
• Analyze validity of research studies used by all parties
• Coordinate/attend independent medical examinations (IMEs)
• Develop life care plans
• Expand attorney's medical library

Serve as the Attorney's Liaison

• Interview plaintiff/defense clients, key witnesses and experts
• Consult with healthcare providers
• Serve as liaison between attorney and healthcare providers, testifying experts, parties, witnesses and other consultants

Work with Experts and Other Witnesses

• Locate/interface with expert witnesses
• Communicate with potential testifying experts
• Analyze/compare expert witness reports and other work products
• Help prepare witnesses and experts for deposition/trial
• Serve as expert witness and testify to nursing standards of care

Assist with Discovery and Preparation for Court

• Prepare deposition/trial questions
• Organize, translate, and tab medical records
• Review/draft responses to legal documents/correspondence for attorney's signature
• Review, analyze and summarize depositions, including past testimony
• Assist in exhibit preparation
• Attend depositions, trials, review panels and arbitration and mediation hearings
• Coordinate/assist in facilitating focus groups and mock trials
• Assist in resolution of cases through alternative dispute resolution, such as arbitration and mediation

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