12 Business Tips for Legal Nurse Consultants

Here are a dozen business tips for legal nurse consultants Tip 1: Stay Positive You can’t expect prospective clients to feel positive about your company – or you – if you have a negative attitude when you are dealing with them. People quickly pick up negativism – and run the other way. Tip 2: Limit…

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No One Cares About Your Legal Nurse Consulting Services Except You

Legal nurse consultants react to this statement. “What do you mean no one cares about my legal nurse consulting services? I have trifolds, a brochure, and a website, all telling the attorney about my services. That is how I am supposed to market myself. What are you saying?” How are You Unique as a Legal…

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7 Tips for Top Notch LNC Reports

You labor over your legal nurse consulting report because you want to do the best job possible for your attorney client. You want to produce a top notch LNC report. I understand. I’ve written or proofread thousands of reports. Here are commonly occurring errors I find when proofreading LNC reports. Don’t get tripped up by…

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7 Tips for Selling to Attorneys

You may have the best clinical background for a case, the greatest desire to grow your legal nurse consulting business, and the best preparation for running your LNC business. If you aren’t effective selling to attorneys, if you can’t close a sale and get the case when an attorney speaks to you, you’ll have to…

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Legal Nurse Consulting Business Phases

As I talk with LNCs about their businesses, I find that many are stuck in one legal nurse consulting business phase. Here’s what I am hearing from legal nurse consultants. Where do you fit in? Start up – This is the first legal nurse consulting business phase. You have attended a legal nurse consulting program,…

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Expert Witness Advice: How Do I Get Out of a Case? Part 2

Withdrawal of an Expert Witness In Part 1, I wrote about the expert witness’s surprise when finding out a case is not going to settle and the expert has to go to court to testify. This is additional expert witness advice: What factors allow an expert witness to withdraw from a case? There are a…

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Expert Witness Advice: How Do I Get Out of a Case? Part 1

“The attorney told me I would never have to testify. Now I found out it is going to trial! I don’t want to go.” Have you ever heard this complaint from an expert? Ever made that statement yourself as an expert? Responsibilities of an Expert Witness An expert enters into an agreement with an attorney…

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How to Sell to Senior Attorneys Part 2

As a legal nurse consultant, you will be effective in establishing rapport so you can sell to senior attorneys. It is essential you understand how they think. In Part 1, I covered strategic thinking, value of time, professionalism, and trust. Here’s more to consider. Sell to Senior Attorneys by Being Confident Senior attorneys carry themselves…

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How to Sell to Senior Attorneys Part 1

Senior attorneys, partners, or managing partners make the decisions about which vendors to work with. As a legal nurse consultant, your goal should be to sell to senior attorneys. You are a vendor who has to demonstrate you understand the language of senior attorneys. Understanding how they think is the first step to communicating with…

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Communication Problems and Patient Injury

According to The Joint Commission, communication problems and patient injury go hand in hand. Legal nurse consultants, risk managers, attorneys and healthcare administrators are all aware of the risks to patient safety from communication errors. In today’s multicultural society, sources of misunderstanding and communication problems can result in multiple opportunities for errors resulting in harm…

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