Learn More about Legal Nurse Consultants®

What is A CLNC®?

A Certified Legal Nurse Consultant is a Registered Nurse who has successfully completed and passed the CLNC® certification program developed by the company who pioneered the profession of Legal Nurse consulting. The CLNC® has the expertise as a health care provider to consult on medical related legal cases, analyzing, pin pointing and interpreting medical, nursing and hospital system events, in any case involving health, illness or injury……..

WHY DO ATTORNEYS NEED CERTIFIED LEGAL NURSE CONSULTANTS®?

The Attorney is the Legal expert; the CLNC® is the expert on the Health Care system and its inner workings. You will find no better cost effective expertise to review medical records and understand the complexities of Health Care.

who uses clnc®'s?

  • Attorney's
  • Law Firms
  • Insurance companies
  • Healthcare Systems
  • Hospitals, Ambulatory Care Centers & Clinics
  • Government Agency's
  • Federal and State patient Safety Organizations
  • Private Corporations, Businesses & Industries 

WHEN SHOULD YOU CALL A CERTIFIED LEGAL NURSE CONSULTANT®?

"The sooner the better"

The CLNC® is an invaluable part of your team from the minute you receive a potential case. Identifying medical issues, screening cases for merit, highlighting adherence's to and from Standards of Care and providing CLNC® services related to your specific needs.

types of cases clnc®'s work on

  • Medical & Nursing Malpractice
  • Personal Injury
  • Products Liability
  • Toxic Tort & Environmental
  • Workers' Compensation & Work Place Related Injuries
  • Criminal
  • Any Case Involving Health, Illness or Injury

THE CLNC® CONSULTANTS IMPACT ON THE LEGAL SYSTEM

  • Represent and speak for the nursing profession.
  • Uphold standards of care for the healthcare community and its professionals by identifying meritorious cases and highlighting deviations from recognized and authoritative standards. The outcome is improved quality of care.
  • Helping identify fraudulent and non-meritorious claims and help to defend against them or keep them out of the legal system.
  •  Help to ensure that the legal system uses up to date scientific, medical and nursing information properly and without distortion.
  •  Provide cost-effective adjuncts to the litigation process.
  • Promote justice.

Why YOU should call a CLNC® today:

 

1.     You have too many cases and not enough qualified help.

2.    Your paralegals need to concentrate on the legal aspects of the case and let the Certified Legal Nurse Consultants concentrate on the medical aspects.

3.    Your nurse paralegals are not experts in the medical aspects of every case and most of them are not clinically active. We have access to over 4,000 CLNC®’s who are experts in every specialty.

4.    We can screen cases very efficiently to keep non meritorious cases from taking up too much of your valuable time.

5.    Your MD experts are very expensive and don’t complete your cases within the necessary time frame.

6.    If you are already using an MD expert we can complement their work and focus on the nursing standards of care.

7.    We can save you time, money and frustration.

     

"No other recipe for medical, legal success"
 

CLNC® SERVICES AVAILABLE

 

·         Screen/investigate cases for merit

·         Define applicable standards of care

·         Define deviations/adherences to standards of care

·         Assess alleged damages/injuries

·         Assess causation factors contributing to damages/injuries

·         Organize, tab and paginate medical records

·         Summarize, translate and interpret medical records

·         Identify potential defendants

·         Literature searches, integrating theseinto analysis

·         Research validity/reliability of research studies

·         Identify/reviewall relevant records and tangible items

·         Expand Attorney’s medical library

·         Consult with healthcare providers

·         Identify testifying experts required

·         Locate experts

·         Communicate with potentialtestifying experts

·         Analyze and compare expert witness reports

·         Serve as liaison between Attorney and all other parties.

·         Prepare interrogatories

·         Review and draft responses to legal documents

·         Assist in exhibition preparation

·         Prepare deposition and trail questions

·         Review, analyze and summarize depositions

·         Attend depositions, trials, arbitrations and mediation hearings

·         Help prepare witnesses/ experts for deposition/trial

·         Prepare written reports for study tools used by Attorneys

·         Coordinate/attend independent medical examinations

·         Develop life care plans

·         Assist in focus groups and mock trials

·         Detect tampering within medical records

 
“ Legal Nurse Consultants are uniquely qualified to assist an Attorney on the medical aspects of a case and are necessary and important members of the team”
— Jace H. Goins. Esq.