How hiring a legal nurse consultant works

Hiring a legal nurse consultant here takes four steps: post a brief, compare proposals, agree on terms, and hire. You can go from first draft to a consultant working on your records in a day.

1. Post a redacted brief

Describe what happened and what you need, without names. A good brief covers:

• The clinical story in a few sentences: the setting, the timeline, the outcome.
• The service you need: merit screening, a medical chronology, a standard of care review, a record summary or an expert witness.
• Your side (plaintiff, defense or neutral), the jurisdiction, roughly how many pages of records, your budget and your deadline.
• The parties to check for conflicts: facilities, providers and carriers. Consultants never see this list; it's only matched against their past employers.

As you type, the brief is checked for patient identifiers like names, dates of birth and record numbers, and you're asked to remove any it finds. Briefs are visible to every verified consultant, so keep them to what a nurse needs to decide whether to propose. See How to redact a case brief.

2. Get proposals

Consultants whose clinical specialty matches the case are alerted when you publish. You can also search consultants and invite specific nurses to propose.

Each proposal shows:

• The consultant's experience, certifications, license verification and reviews from other firms
• A flat fee, or an hourly rate with estimated hours
• A delivery date
• A confirmation that they have no conflict of interest, plus anything they chose to disclose
• Testimony terms, if the case may need an expert witness

3. Compare and agree on terms

Open proposals side by side. If a proposal is close but not quite right, counter with a different amount and a note. The consultant can accept, decline or revise. Message consultants with questions before you decide; nothing confidential is shared until you hire.

4. Hire

Choose Hire on the proposal and pay through the platform (see Paying for a consultant). Once payment goes through:

• The case moves to In progress and the other proposals are closed.
• You and the consultant share a private case workspace: an encrypted record vault, the chronology, flagged findings, messages and deliverables.
• Your confidential notes, which only the hired consultant sees, become visible to them.

After delivery

The consultant uploads deliverables to the workspace. Review them, ask for changes in messages, and close the case when the work is done. Closing releases payment to the consultant, and you're asked for a short review that helps other firms choose.

Need it faster?

If your deadline is close, a rush listing alerts every available consultant immediately. See Rush and priority cases.