FAQs

What services do you offer?

1. Medical Record Review & Analysis

• Identify, review and organize relevant medical records, nursing charts, hospital policies/procedures, and other healthcare documentation.

• Summarize, translate and interpret medical records (turning raw clinical data into understandable language for attorneys).

• Prepare chronologies/timelines of medical events (for example, from when a patient was admitted → treatment → outcome) to correlate with the legal claim.

• Look for missing, altered or tampered documentation, or inconsistencies in care.

2. Case Screening & Merit/Defensibility Assessment

• Evaluate early on whether a case has merit (for plaintiff) or defensibility (for defense) from both clinical and legal perspectives.

• Identify causation, damages/injuries, standard of care deviations (or adherence), and potential defendants.

3. Research & Literature Review

• Perform healthcare research: identify relevant standards/guidelines, analyze medical literature/studies that might support (or impair) a case.

• Define applicable standard(s) of care and assess whether the healthcare provider(s) met or deviated from these standards.

4. Expert Witness Support & Liaison Work

• Assist in locating and vetting expert witnesses (physicians, nurses, other specialists) who can testify.

• Prepare experts for deposition/trial: help them understand the case, interpret medical issues, prepare questions or testimony.

• Serve as a fact witness or even expert witness (depending on credentials, nursing practice, and case specifics) on nursing standard of care.

5. Litigation Support & Trial Preparation

• Organize, tab/paginate medical records for use in litigation.

• Review and summarize depositions, assist with interrogatories, assist drafting responses or reviewing legal documents as they relate to the medical facts.

• Create demonstrative evidence (timelines, charts, graphics) to help attorneys present medical issues clearly to judges/juries.

• Attend independent medical examinations (IMEs), defense medical exams (DMEs), mediations, arbitrations, trials to provide support.

6. Client & Attorney Education

• Educate attorneys (and their teams) about clinical facts, medical terminology, treatment processes, nursing issues and care standards. This helps bridge the gap between legal and healthcare worlds.

• Serve as a liaison between attorneys, healthcare providers, parties/witnesses, experts.

7. Cost, Damage & Life-Care Planning Support (in some cases)

• For catastrophic injuries/long-term care situations: develop life care plans, project future medical costs, evaluate billing audits, prepare Medicare set-aside allocations, etc.

• Assess damages, pain & suffering issues from a medical/clinical viewpoint.

8. Risk Management / Preventive Services

• In contexts of healthcare facilities, insurers or government agencies: LNCs may help with risk-management investigations, regulatory compliance, reviewing staff competency, documentation practices, falls/injuries in long term care, medication errors, etc.

Who leads your firm?

Rachael Wicks, RN, BSN, MBA, leads our team with expertise in nursing and business.

How does consulting work?

We analyze medical records and provide evidence-based reports to help attorneys build stronger cases.

• Medical malpractice

• Personal injury

• Product liability

• Workers’ compensation

• Long-term care and elder abuse

• Toxic torts and more

What types of cases do you handle?

How do I get started?

Contact us to discuss your case and see how we can help with medical expertise.