Litigation Support Services
Are you in over your head?
Medical cases often involve enormous amounts of documents, charts, bills, all riddled with confusing medical terminology. Although your legal team offers litigation support, can they navigate the ins and outs of the healthcare system? Will you have the information you need to win your case?
Litigation support services by Shirley Gorman, Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, can offer the lifebuoy you need to succeed in your medical-legal case.
The Litigation Support Specialist
A CLNC like Shirley Gorman is trained in exactly what you need in litigation support services: analyzing documents, interpreting confusing terminology for you and your staff, preparing interrogatories and court exhibits…you name it, and Shirley has it covered. With a strong grounding in medicine, Shirley can grasp the overarching scenario of a case quickly, so that she can serve you in piecing together the elements that will create a strong, winning case.
Expert witness interviews, investigations of cases involving wrongful death, and interrogatories written by one who knows exactly the questions to ask...
There's very little that Shirley Gorman can't offer as a litigation support specialist.
Preparing Interrogatories
What do you ask a witness whose field of expertise you are not familiar with? Don't spend hours trying to blindly educate yourself on the specifics of medicine. Shirley will create incisive, direct interrogatories that will get to crucial information, fast. Her experience is vast in cases involving standards of care, toxic tort, and wrongful death, and interrogatories are invaluable in any of these situations. Don't let a weak interrogation injure your case-hire Shirley Gorman to make sure the right questions get asked.
Request for Production - identifying important medical documents or tangible items.
Request for Admission - assists with medical questions regarding the case.
Depositions - it makes profound sense to have a CLNC assist you with deposing a medical witness party or expert. We shudder at the mistakes that occur without an exacting legal nurse in the room.
For instance, the story about a podiatrist who attests to the lack of skin ulceration on a victim's foot - when he never actually removed the victim's sock - is more than apocryphal - it's true! Don't let this happen to you.
Ensure that your depositions are science-based, through and through.
Court Exhibits
Shirley has the knowledge to infer what documentation and proof will be necessary to strengthen a specific case. Attending to every detail with your consultation, she will suggest and acquire court exhibits integral to a trial.
Physical and mental examinations - IME's
Having a CLNC attend an examination is a precaution that pays dividends for a legal case. It's an environment these nurses are at home in. They can watch the examination with informed eyes. They'll spot inconsistencies and report on their observations.
Document Analysis
You've got all the files... but what do they mean? While it takes you and your staff endless hours to decipher complicated medical terminology, it could take Shirley half the time-saving you money, and providing you with plain-language interpretation of records, charts, bills, and more. A CLNC is a medical litigation support specialist: you wouldn't have a dentist give you an eye exam, so don't rely on legal experts when medical expertise is needed!
Shirley is passionate about giving you the litigation support services that you need. Contact Shirley today for a free consultation about how she might help your case.
Shirley Gorman, RN, CLNC provides consulting legal nurse services to attorneys and law firms, plaintiffs and defendants, insurance companies and other organizations, in and around Fort Collins, Colorado including Greeley, Windsor, Denver, and Boulder and Southern Wyoming, including Laramie and Cheyenne.
