​​​​​​​LASH & Associates ​​​​​​Medical Legal Consulting by Certified Legal Nurse Consultants

We know that attorneys’ needs vary, and each case is unique. Our purely consulting services are individualized according to your specific requirements. The following services list is not all-inclusive; we may offer additional behind the scenes services based on your needs. Our goal is to provide benefits and value to you.

Communications

  • Free initial consultation with attorney to determine specific requests, needs, priorities
  • Letter agreement specifying desired services, budget, deadlines, and mutual expectations
  • Initial verbal preliminary report based on available records
  • Intermittent updates to keep attorney informed
  • Collaboration with paralegal and legal assistant per direction by attorney
  • Conference with attorney post work product submission for questions, clarification, and feedback
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Medical Record Analysis

  • Screen / investigate medical records for merit and defensible information
  • Assess injuries, causation, contributing and mitigating factors
  • Educate attorney regarding injuries, abnormal physiology, past medical history
  • Identify applicable standards of care and define deviations from and adherences to standards (medical malpractice and nursing home litigation)
  • Identify and review relevant policies and procedures, and other essential documents (medical malpractice and nursing home litigation)
  • Identify missing records
  • Identify potential medical record tampering
  • Identify potential defendants (medical malpractice)
  • Identify types of testifying experts needed
  • Recommend interrogatories, requests for production, deposition questions
  • Analyze and summarize depositions and past testimony
  • Recommend ideas for demonstrative evidence
  • Perform medical literature research specific to the case and integrate into the analysis
  • Interpret, translate, summarize medical records into useful information for the attorney
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Work Products

  • Verbal reports
  • Brief, moderate, comprehensive reports
  • Medical case summaries
  • Custom detailed chronologies
  • Written reports formatted according to attorney preference