- Initial case screening for merit and damages
- Medical chronologies
- Case summaries
- Organize, tab, index, paginate (when necessary) medical records for easy retrieval. Also done electronically
- Review of hospital policies and procedures
- Identify adherences to and deviations from these standards
- Identify, locate, summarize and interpret applicable standards of care
- Identify causation issues, assess damages/injuries and contributing or confounding factors
- Identify and recommend potential defendants
- Identify issues of tampering with medical records
- RN phone interviews, intake and screening
- Independent medical exams
- Attorney seminars on medical issues
- Mass torts
- Search, summarize medical and nursing literature and integrate results of your search into case analysis
- Analyze the validity of research studies relied on by all parties
- Coordinate and attend independent medical exams
- Scientific research and development
- Expand attorney’s medical library
- Interview clients, key witnesses and experts
- Consult with healthcare providers and treating physicians
- Meet with other consultants and service providers on the attorney’s behalf
- Assist in examination/deposition/trial questions
- Prepare interrogatories and requests for production
- Analyze and summarize depositions and historical testimony from specified experts
- Assist with exhibit preparation and other medical demonstrative evidence
- Attend depositions and trials
- Coordinate and assist with facilitating focus groups and mock trials
- Assist in resolution of cases through alternative dispute resolution – arbitration/mediation
- Locate experts
- Expert witness development