Role of The Legal Nurse Legal Nurse Consulting is defined as a specialty practice of nursing. LNC education is developed and presented as specialty nursing curricula by nurse educators in partnership with legal educators. The primary role of the legal nurse consultant is to evaluate, analyze and render informed opinions on the delivery of health care and the resulting outcomes, in a manner useful to litigation and settlements. ACTIVITIES WHICH HELP TO DISTINGUISH THE PRACTICE OF LEGAL NURSE CONSULTING: *Facilitating communications and strategizing with legal professionals for successful resolutions between parties involved in healthcare related litigation or other medical-legal matters. *Assisting attorneys and/or others involved in the legal process regarding the healthcare facts, issues and costs of a case or a claim. *Researching and integrating healthcare and nursing literature, guidelines, standards and regulations as related to the healthcare facts and issues of a case or a claim. *Reviewing, summarizing and analyzing medical records and other pertinent healthcare and legal documents and comparing and correlating them to the allegations. *Assessing issues of damages and causation relative to liability with the legal process. *Identifying, locating, evaluating and conferring with expert witnesses. *Interviewing witnesses and parties pertinent to the healthcare issues in collaboration with legal professionals. *Drafting legal documents in medically- related cases under the supervision of an attorney. *Developing collaborative case strategies with those practicing within the legal system. *Providing support during discovery, depositions, hearings, arbitrations, trials and other legal proceedings. *Testifying at depositions, hearings, arbitrations or trials as an expert healthcare witness. *Supporting the process of adjudication of legal claims. *Contacting and conferring with vendors to develop demonstrative evidence or to collect costs of healthcare services, supplies, or equipment. *Supervising and educating other nurses in the practice of legal nurse consulting.