Top 5 Legal Nurse Consultants (Ranked)

Founded by an experienced RN of nearly 20 years and a Nurse Practitioner for the last 9 years, Discovery NP Legal Consultants is unique in that it utilizes nurse practitioners (NP) who have a specific clinical specialty area and who in most states clinically function more similar to physicians than to nurses. However despite this obvious clinical advantage, Discovery NP Legal Consultants’ NPs bill at RN rates. Their nurse practitioners have first-hand knowledge of the applicable standards of care and can help attorneys and law firms determine the merits of a given case. They rely on a round table approach, collaborating behind the scenes to ensure the practitioner assigned to your case has the most knowledge and clinical expertise specific to the case the medical malpractice attorney is representing.

They offer complete packages and a la carte services, including:

• Comprehensive Flow: A sortable chronological and witness-oriented bird’s eye view
• Master Table of Contents: With a trained medical eye, our team teases out the individual records within lengthy PDFs and hyperlinks to each record. Distinguishes the relevant from the extraneous, cutting right to the chase and saving the attorney, the paralegal, and all expert witnesses hours of skimming time.
• Editorial Narrative Summary: Provides a medical professionals impression of the case and can include rationales and supportive literature upon request
• Case-Custom Glossary: A searchable case-relevant reference sheet for medical terminology and abbreviations
• Document Request List: Let’s you know what’s missing, why you need it, and what facility has it
• Deposition Assistant: Questions developed by a nurse practitioner that will help you uncover the information that you need
• Cloud-based and Attorney-Owned Work Product: Discovery NP provides its clients with one central document in a raw and editable format that litigators can use throughout the lifespan of their cases.
• HIPAA-compliant indirect access on the same retainer to “Consultants to the Consultants” for additional opinions including an ER physician, radiologist for second opinions on scans, pharmacist, certified nurse-midwife, and more.

What others are saying:

“The team used a collaborative approach. It was not just a case of two heads being better than one. Four or five specialized nurse practitioners reviewed the records and gave their assessment of the case. They also shared ideas about what information might be missing and what questions still needed to be answered. They were very knowledgeable.”

-Claire Nolan, Attorney at Law