Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, CLNC^® is the official certification of the National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants (NACLNC). A CLNC^® is a Registered Nurse who utilizes his/her expertise as a healthcare professional and has completed the extensive legal nurse consulting training program through the Vickie Milazzo Institute. The CLNC^® certification attests to the holders’ attainment of the expertise needed to successfully consult on medical-related legal cases.

We provide a satisfaction guarantee on all HLNC work product. If you are not 100% satisfied with the work product you have contracted, contact us within seven business days. We will work with you to improve the product to your standards at no additional cost.

We have the knowledge, and hands-on experience to expertly and efficiently evaluate your client’s voluminous medical records and identify what aspects of the chart are missing to support your legal argument. . We provide insight that can be pivotal to your case's outcome.

Medical records can be difficult to navigate, and understanding the medical events are crucial to litigating your case. We will educate your team about the events, injuries, damages, and recovery. We are experts at distilling medical jargon and making sense of the medical records. We have spent many years educating our patients and families on illness, injury, and care. We are excited to share these aspects of medicine with you and your team to save you time and help win your cases.

We provide a satisfaction guarantee on all HLNC work product. If you are not 100% satisfied with the work product you have contracted, contact us within seven business days. We will work with you to improve the product to your standards at no additional cost.

We work with your paralegal staff and legal team to assist in creating the strongest case. We provide a variety of consultant services. Since there are many ways to utilize a legal nurse consultant, you can choose what is right for your firm and the case at hand.

All medical specialties have practices and standards that are unique to their specialty. As we both know, "bad" outcomes in medicine do not always mean negligence. Our hands-on practical knowledge and insight of hospitals and outpatent settings provides your team with invaluable knowledge and can provide insight into damages and recovery as well.
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Allow us to educate your legal team on these intricacies and assist you in building a stronger case.

Medical records do not provide the whole story. Our practical knowledge of healthcare combined with our expertise in reviewing medical records provides clinical insight into the reasonable standards of care, possible underlying conditions that can contribute to the event, and/or establish parts of the permanent record that are missing or untold pieces of the story.

Having a legal nurse consultant expertly review the case from the start can limit your time spent on non-meritorious cases. Inversely, an initial review can highlight the depth of the case, assisting your team to prioritize your resources accordingly.

Whether the case has just crossed your desk, or you are about to start deposition, we at Hughes Legal Nurse Consulting will be here to assist you along the way. Whether your need is identifying and locating a medical expert or obtaining the complete records you need to best litigate the case, we will assist you We strive to decrease your frustration with the medical aspects of cases and ultimately alleviate your time constraint burden.

As soon as you have identified a potential client as having a medical-related case. We can limityour time spent on non -meritorious cases helping identify cases worth your time and effort.This will increase your productivity and profit margin, and also streamline the cases that aremeritorious. HLNC on your team at the earliest possible time will efficientlynavigate the pertinent records, identify areas of the medical portion of the case to focus on andfree up your time to spend on the legal aspects of the case.

Certified Legal Nurse Consultants at HLNC have knowledge, experience and resources to be your cost effective way to analyze your case. Our team has a thorough understanding of anatomy and physiology, disease process, health care facility standards, and policies, as well as medical and nursing treatments and standards of care. We have years of providing clinical care and medical treatment to patients as well as analyzing medical records, documentation, and scientific literature.

This knowledge and combined resources is your cost effective way to analyze and develop cases involving health or injury. Legal nurses assist with developing your case for a fraction of the cost of an MD expert. MD experts are needed for testimony and portions of cases, but a Legal nurse on your team will greatly decrease the amount of time you spend with the MD Expert.

Cases involving injury or illness come in all shapes and sizes. The nature of the case will determine the expertise needed. HLNC has expertise in a variety of specialty areas of healthcare, but not all areas. When we are presented with a case that we feel is outside of our expertise scope we utilize our nationwide network of medical professionals and Legal Nurse Consultants. We have a networking web of certified legal nurse consultants that specialize in a large variety of health care settings that differ from our specialties that we have built a relationship with and work closely with that will assist with case analysis. This alleviates your search for legal nurses that meet the needs of the case, and also gives you peace of mind that you will receive the top notch work product you come to expect from the HLNC team.

HLNC follows all HIPAA regulations and all employees sign legal confidentiality agreements. We are willing to review and sign NDAs.