LASH & Associates Medical Legal Consulting by Certified Legal Nurse Consultants

Benefits to Provide Value to Your Work

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To achieve your desired client and firm outcomes, our purely consulting services allow you more time and energy to focus on legal aspects, issues, and strategies for your medically related cases
To enable you to focus on what is medically important and understand what is not important, we translate voluminous electronic and written medical records into usable and pertinent information
To support your legal decision making and strategies, we conduct medical literature research specific to cases, explain injuries, abnormal physiology, and contributing factors
Our detailed analyses provide you with unbiased, chronological, and understandable explanations of relevant events and facts
Depending upon your type of practice and legal requirements for testifying experts, our analyses may allow you to focus on specific issues to discuss with testifying experts, thereby decreasing experts’ billable hours
For medical malpractice and nursing home litigation we evaluate adherences to and deviations from standards of care, to increase attorneys’ knowledge regarding professional standards and regulatory requirements
Based on our analyses of alleged injuries, causation, and contributing factors:

for plaintiff attorneys, our merit reviews assist in your decisions whether or not to accept cases, or settle early if significant defensible information is discovered once cases are active
for defense attorneys, we assist in your defense or settlement by identifying defensible information and inconsistencies related to plaintiff information

We use our medical and nursing knowledge, expertise, and insiders’ experience with healthcare systems to identify missing records, potential tampering, missing links; this decreases the chance of unwelcome surprises for you
So that you can anticipate what opposition counsel may argue, we objectively analyze medically related strengths and weakness; we identify problems for the plaintiff and problems for the defense, regardless of the side of our hiring attorney
Our ability to educate attorneys regarding medical aspects provides attorneys with increased confidence preparing for deposition and trial
Our services support and assist you to more timely and efficiently handle cases, which enhances your opportunities for increased profitability