Case screening for merit
A clinical read of the records before you invest, so weak cases exit early and strong cases move with confidence.
Legal Nurse Consulting · California + Arizona
The truth is in the chart. We find it.
Obsidian Legal Nurse Consulting provides medical record review, medical chronologies, and standards of care analysis for attorneys and litigation teams in California and Arizona.
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From the Floor
The Clinical WorldNurse-Owned & Operated · Registered Nurses
Licensed · California + Arizona
APC Registered · New Zealand
(909) 638-2111
Services
Legal nurse consulting services, sharpened for your team.
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Medical chronologies
The full record distilled into a precise, cited timeline your whole team can navigate at a glance.
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Standards of care analysis
What the standard required, what the record shows, and where they diverge, stated plainly.
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Deep record review
EHR audit trails, nursing notes, medication records, and the details that hide between entries.
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Deposition & trial support
Question strategy, exhibit preparation, and clinical translation when testimony turns technical.
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Behind the scenes capacity
Delivered under your brand when you need it that way: your firm's name, our clinical engine.
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Record organization & indexing
Thousands of chaotic pages converted into indexed, searchable, chronological PDFs your whole team can cite.
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Expert witness location
Qualified testifying experts identified, vetted, and matched to the clinical questions of your case.
Built for Medically Complex Litigation
If it turns on the chart, it's our kind of case.
Personal injury
Medical malpractice
Nursing home & elder care
Product & pharmaceutical liability
Workers' compensation
Wrongful death
Birth injury
Toxic tort
If a case turns on what happened in a chart, a hospital, or a course of treatment, that is where we add value.
Landmark Cases
The cases our field is built on.
CASE FILE · TENNESSEE, 2017
The Vaught medication error
A fatal drug swap, vecuronium administered instead of Versed, ended in a nurse's criminal conviction and changed how the entire profession views documentation. The chart lesson: override logs and scanning records tell the story long before testimony does.
CASE FILE · NEW YORK, 1984
Libby Zion
An eighteen year old's death under exhausted, unsupervised residents reshaped physician duty hours nationwide. The chart lesson: orders, timing, and who was actually present at each decision are all in the record.
CASE FILE · SOUTH CAROLINA, 2000
Lewis Blackman
A healthy teenager's post-surgical deterioration went unrecognized until it was too late, the failure to rescue that now carries his name in state law. The chart lesson: vital sign trends and escalation gaps are visible on paper hours before a crisis.
CASE FILE · MARYLAND, 2001
Josie King
A toddler's death from dehydration and communication breakdown at a world-renowned hospital launched the modern patient safety movement. The chart lesson: the record shows when warnings went undocumented and unheard.
These are public landmark matters studied across our field, not Obsidian engagements. Our insights library examines cases like these in depth, and what their records still teach.
Injury cases live and die on the records. Our nurses read them for a living.Pain management and orthopedic care experience
Why Attorneys Choose Obsidian
Not just nurses who read charts.
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Still in the clinic
Our nurses practice today, in pain management and orthopedic care. The read on the standard of care is current, not remembered.
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Multi-specialty range
Perioperative, cardiac telemetry, pain management, women's health, telehealth, and behavioral care: we follow a case across departments.
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Licensed and credentialed
California and Arizona RN licensure, APC Registered in New Zealand, with BLS and ACLS certification behind every review.
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A perspective juries relate to
Our lead nurse brings culturally competent, trauma-informed analysis that connects with diverse juries and witnesses.
Engagement
Records in. Clarity out.
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Send the file securely. We confirm scope, timeline, and deliverable in writing before work begins.
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Clinical analysis
A registered nurse works the record line by line: chronology, standards, gaps, and strengths.
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Work product out
Cited, court-ready deliverables in your format, with findings walked through live if you want them.
From the Insights Library
Insights from our lead nurse.
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Understanding electronic health records (EHR) in litigation
What audit trails reveal that printouts hide.
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Why a legal nurse could be the key to winning your next case
The clinical eye as litigation strategy.
Our Lead Nurse
Jeanie Vatelia, BSN, RN · Lead Nurse Consultant
Obsidian's consultants are practicing registered nurses. Jeanie Vatelia brings decades of clinical experience across pain management and orthopedic care, charting systems, and the details that decide cases, and puts that clinical eye to work for legal teams.
Licensed in California and Arizona, and holding APC registration in New Zealand, she approaches every engagement with the discipline of patient care: precise, documented, and honest about what the record does and does not show. She is also a passionate advocate for Black women in malpractice and injury cases, where symptoms are too often dismissed and pain under-documented, and she is known for catching what everyday practice misses: the small deviations in a chart that become the center of a case.
BSN, RNLicensed: CaliforniaLicensed: ArizonaAPC Registered: New Zealand
Book a free 30 minute consultation.
Talk through the case with a registered nurse before sending a single page. No cost, no obligation.
Attorneys: send the case.
Tell us about the matter. A registered nurse reviews every inquiry, and initial consultations are free.
Start the IntakeNow accepting applications.
Obsidian is building its consultant bench: Legal Nurse Consultants, Expert Witnesses for legal and medical malpractice matters, and clinical legal support roles. Applications and interviews are open now, so the right help is ready the moment cases arrive.
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