Legal nurse consulting · Mobile, Alabama
Medical records,
read the way a
nurse reads them.
Bridging Healthcare and Law. I review and organize complex medical records for attorneys — producing chronologies, written analysis, and litigation support that hold up when someone checks the page you cited.
Lula Griggs, LPN — twenty years of nursing experience, now applied to the record rather than the bedside.
20
Years of nursing experience
LPN
Licensed practical nurse
Mobile
Alabama, and surrounding communities
AL + remote
Serving law firms statewide
The work
Between the chart
and the case file,
there is a gap.
A medical record is written for clinicians who already know the patient. Attorneys have to read it as evidence — and the clinical story it tells is not always the one on the surface.
I translate that record into something a legal team can use: a sequence of events with citations, an analysis of what the documentation supports and where it breaks down, and a clear account of what is missing. Not a summary of the chart, but an organized, clinically accurate reading of it.
Twenty years of nursing — in care coordination, telephone triage, quality assurance, and documentation — is what makes that reading possible. I know what a chart should contain, and what its silences mean.
Services
The medical work a case
actually requires.
- 01Medical Record Review and AnalysisA full read of the record, not a skim — every provider, every encounter, and every gap in between.Records & Analysis
- 02Medical Chronology DevelopmentOne dated, source-cited timeline of the care, from first contact to the present.Records & Analysis
- 03Identification of Missing and Inconsistent RecordsThe pages that should be there, and the places where two records disagree.Records & Analysis
- 04Evaluation of Medical DocumentationHow well the chart actually supports the care that was, or was not, delivered.Documentation
- 05Assessment of Injuries and CausationWhether the medical record actually connects the injury to the event in question.Case Strategy
- 06Case Screening and Merit ReviewA clinical read before you commit resources to the file.Case Strategy
- 07Identification of Potential Breaches in the Standard of CareWhere the documented care departs from what the record itself expects.Case Strategy
- 08Medical Literature ResearchCurrent, cited literature on the clinical question at issue.Case Strategy
- 09Preparation for Depositions and TrialsMedical groundwork for the questions you will ask and the answers you will hear.Litigation Support
The deliverable
A chronology you can defend line by line.
Every entry is drawn from the record itself, dated, and cited to the page it came from. No inference without a citation, and no entry you cannot find in the production in seconds.
- A single dated sequence across every provider and facility
- Medication, procedure, and study logs kept alongside it
- Gaps and contradictions flagged where they surface
- Delivered with an index of providers, facilities, and sources
Date
The date of service, as it appears in the record.
Source
The document the entry was drawn from.
Facility / provider
Who delivered the care, and where.
Clinical event
What happened, in language a jury can follow.
Page citation
The page to turn to, so the entry can be checked.
Every line of the chronology is built to this structure, so no entry has to be taken on trust. Case content remains confidential and is released only to the attorneys on the matter.
How I work
Four steps, no surprises.
01
You send the records
Records by secure transfer, however the production arrives — scanned, native, or indexed. I confirm receipt and, once I have seen them, scope and a delivery date in writing.
02
I read and analyze
Every provider note, flowsheet, order, medication record, and study is read in sequence and cross-checked against the others, so gaps and contradictions surface before the analysis is written.
03
You receive the work product
A dated, page-cited chronology and written findings, with an index of providers, facilities, and sources. Delivered electronically, in a form you can hand to a partner or an expert.
04
I stay on the matter
A follow-up call to walk through the findings is part of the engagement, and I remain available for deposition and trial preparation as the case develops.
Founder
Lula Griggs, LPN
About the founder
Twenty years of nursing,
now in service of the case.
Lula Griggs, LPN founded CSS Medical Legal Consulting Group in Mobile, Alabama after twenty years of nursing practice. Her clinical background spans care coordination, telephone triage, quality assurance, medical documentation, and healthcare support — the disciplines that decide whether a record is complete, and whether the care it describes was delivered as documented.
The practice exists to bridge the gap between healthcare and law: giving legal professionals an organized, clinically accurate understanding of the medical aspects of their cases, so decisions can be made on the record rather than around it.
Clinical background
Nursing · Care coordination · Telephone triage · Quality assurance · Medical documentation · Healthcare support
What you can count on
Professionalism
Clear scope, clear deadlines, and written work product you can hand to a partner without a caveat. Every engagement is confirmed in writing before the review begins.
Attention to detail
Every chronology entry is dated and cited to its page. Every conclusion points back to the documentation it came from, so nothing in the analysis has to be taken on trust.
Confidentiality
Records are handled under a signed confidentiality agreement, kept in a restricted workspace, shared only with the people you designate, and disposed of at the close of the matter as you direct.
Service area
Mobile, and the firms that reach it.
Mobile, Alabama and surrounding communities — serving law firms throughout Alabama and remotely where appropriate.
Direct line
(251) 513-5280Questions attorneys ask
All questionsSend what you have: provider and facility records, imaging reports, laboratory results, medication records, and any index or billing pages available. I will review them and tell you what is missing. If the production is large, a facility index or a preliminary chronology helps me scope the work before the full record arrives.
An index tells you which pages exist. A chronology tells you what happened, in order, with each entry dated and cited to the page it came from. I write chronologies to be read by someone with no clinical training and checked by someone who has it.
A legal nurse consultant reviews, organizes, and translates the medical record for the legal team. A testifying expert is retained to offer opinion testimony, including on the standard of care. My work gives your expert — and your questions — a record that is organized, cited, and clinically accurate.
Records are handled under a signed confidentiality agreement and kept in a restricted workspace available only to this engagement. They are shared only with the people you designate on the matter, and disposed of at the close of the engagement as you direct.
Request a review
Tell me what the
record has to answer.
Send the case type, the volume of records, and the question the matter turns on. I will come back to you with a scope and a delivery date.