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The truth is in the chart. A working nurse finds it, on a date, for a fixed number.
Medical record review for attorneys and litigation teams, delivered by registered nurses who are still on the floor. Every engagement on this page has a published price and a published deadline. Miss the deadline and you pay nothing.
The meter is off. You will never receive an invoice larger than the number on this page. No hourly billing, no charges for the phone call, no revised estimate three weeks in.
Start by talking to the nurse, not to a salesperson.
Thirty minutes with a registered nurse about the matter, before you send a single page. No cost, no obligation, and no junior taking notes to pass along.
Most calls end with us telling you which of the things below you actually need, and a fair number end with us telling you that you do not need any of them yet. That is not a sales technique. A firm we talk out of a chronology this month is a firm that sends us the right case next month.
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Before you sign the case
Case Merit Screen
For you if: a case is sitting on your desk and the decision to take it is being made on instinct and a demand letter, because nobody in the building reads charts for a living.
What you get
- A registered nurse reads the records you have, not a summary of them.
- A written merit opinion: what the chart supports, what it does not, and what is missing that would change the answer.
- The specific records worth subpoenaing next, named, so the second request is not another guess.
- A plain statement of the clinical weaknesses opposing counsel will find first.
- A call to walk you through it, with the nurse who read it.
Our promise
Written merit opinion within five business days of the records arriving, or you pay nothing.
Our nurses still work clinical shifts, which is what makes the read current and what caps how many active matters we hold at once. If we are full we will say so on the free call rather than take the case and the deadline with it.
The comparison is not an hourly rate. It is the cost of a case you should have declined: the months of attorney time, the expert retainer, the discovery spend, and the settlement you take to make it go away. A firm finds out it had a weak chart eventually. $497 decides whether that is now or in year two.
The workhorse
Medical Chronology
For you if: the file is thousands of pages, a deposition is coming, and somebody on your team is about to spend three weekends building a timeline in a spreadsheet.
What you get
- Every clinically relevant entry in date and time order, cited to the page it came from, so any line can be defended on the record.
- Gaps flagged as gaps. The hours nobody charted are usually the hours the case turns on, and they do not announce themselves.
- Medication administration, vital sign trends and escalation timing pulled out as their own threads, because that is how they get argued.
- Conflicting entries put side by side rather than silently reconciled.
- Delivered in your format, whether that is a table your paralegals filter or a narrative you can lift into a brief.
- A live walkthrough with the nurse who built it, so your deposition outline comes out of the same session.
Our promise
Cited, court-ready chronology within ten business days of the records arriving, or you pay nothing.
Our nurses still work clinical shifts, which is what makes the read current and what caps how many active matters we hold at once. If we are full we will say so on the free call rather than take the case and the deadline with it.
Legal nurse consultants commonly bill $125 to $200 an hour, and a chart this size is twenty to thirty hours of reading. The flat price is not the interesting part. The interesting part is that it cannot grow after you have agreed to it.
Over 500 pages we quote before you pay, in writing, once. A record of 4,000 pages is not the same job as one of 400, and a flat price that pretends otherwise either overcharges you or gets renegotiated after you have committed.
The one that decides cases
Standards of Care Analysis
For you if: you need to know, before you spend on a testifying expert, whether the standard of care was actually breached or whether you have a bad outcome that everybody documented correctly.
What you get
- What the standard required at that facility, in that unit, in that year, sourced rather than asserted.
- What the record actually shows, line by line, against that standard.
- Every point of divergence stated plainly, and every point where the care was defensible stated just as plainly. You are paying for an honest read, and a report that only finds what you hoped for is worth nothing when it meets opposing counsel.
- The clinical questions a testifying expert should be asked to answer, so you retain one for the right scope instead of paying them to find the scope.
- A written opinion you can hand to co-counsel without translating it first.
Our promise
Delivered within fifteen business days of the records arriving, or you pay nothing.
Our nurses still work clinical shifts, which is what makes the read current and what caps how many active matters we hold at once. If we are full we will say so on the free call rather than take the case and the deadline with it.
A testifying expert's retainer is typically the larger number, and it is spent before anyone knows whether the theory survives the chart. This is the step that tells you whether to spend it.
For firms with steady volume
Firm Clinical Desk
Why this exists: the cases worth screening are the ones you have not signed yet, and a per-case price makes a partner think twice about a $497 question. At that point the screening stops happening and the bad cases come back. A standing desk removes the decision.
What you get, every month
- Unlimited merit screens. Send every intake, including the ones you are fairly sure about.
- One medical chronology a month included, up to 500 pages.
- Priority turnaround ahead of per-case work.
- A named nurse who knows your docket, rather than whoever picked up the file.
- Everything else on this page at partner pricing.
Our promise
Cancel in one click from your receipt. No notice period, no exit fee, no call to get out of it.
One included chronology is $1,497 of the $1,997. The unlimited screening is effectively the rest, which is the point: it should cost you nothing to ask.
The rest of it, priced the same way
Quoted in writing before you commit, and the number does not move afterwards.
- Deep record reviewEHR audit trails, nursing notes and medication records. What the printout does not show and the metadata does.from $1,997
- Record organisation and indexingThousands of chaotic pages into one indexed, searchable, chronological PDF your whole team can cite.from $897
- Deposition and trial supportQuestion strategy, exhibit preparation, and clinical translation when testimony turns technical.$1,997 a day
- Expert witness locationQualified testifying experts identified, vetted, and matched to the clinical questions in your case.from $997
- Behind the scenes capacityDelivered under your firm's name when you need it that way. Your brand on the work product, our clinical engine behind it, and we never appear in front of your client.partner pricing
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Who reads your chart
Jeanie Vatelia, BSN, RN
Lead Nurse Consultant. Licensed in California and Arizona, APC registered in New Zealand, with BLS and ACLS behind every review.
- Still in the clinic. Our nurses practise today, in pain management and orthopedic care. That is the entire product. A read on the standard of care from someone who left the floor in 2014 is a memory, and opposing counsel will treat it as one.
- Multi-specialty range. Perioperative, cardiac telemetry, pain management, women's health, telehealth and behavioural care, so a case can be followed across departments instead of stopping at the unit door.
- Known for the small deviations. The entries that look ordinary in isolation and become the centre of a case in sequence.
- A perspective juries relate to. Culturally competent, trauma informed analysis, and a particular focus on malpractice and injury cases involving Black women, where symptoms are too often dismissed and pain is too often under-documented.
The questions firms ask before they send a case
Why is this a flat price when everyone else bills hourly?
Because an hourly meter makes you ration the thing you should be doing most: asking. Firms on hourly arrangements screen fewer cases, call less often, and find out about the weak chart later, which is the expensive version. We would rather be asked early and often than be paid for the hours nobody wanted to authorise.
What happens if the record is bigger than you thought?
We tell you before we start, in writing, once. We do not begin work and then revise the number. If the quote changes after you have paid, that is our error to absorb and not your invoice to grow.
Is a legal nurse consultant an expert witness?
No, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something. A legal nurse consultant is a consulting expert who works behind your work product privilege. If you need someone to testify, that is a separate retention with separate disclosure obligations, and the expert witness location service above exists precisely because those are two different jobs.
Do you give legal advice?
No. We do not advise on strategy, causation as a legal element, damages, or whether to file. We tell you what the chart says and what the standard required. The law is your side of the table and we are careful to stay on ours.
How do the records reach you?
Encrypted transfer, and we will sign your firm's confidentiality agreement and business associate agreement rather than asking you to sign ours. Protected health information is handled under the same discipline it is handled under in a hospital, because the people handling it are the same people.
Why would I not just use a paralegal?
For indexing and organisation, you probably should, and we will say so on the call. For anything that turns on whether the care met the standard, a paralegal is being asked to make a clinical judgement they are not licensed to make, and that answer does not survive a deposition.
How many cases can you take?
Fewer than a firm with a bench of retired nurses, and that is deliberate. Our nurses still work clinical shifts, which is what makes the read current and what caps how many active matters we hold at once. If we are full we will say so on the free call rather than taking the case and the deadline with it.