Rodzinak Consulting LLC · Legal Nurse Consulting
I go inside a medical record, identify what matters, and translate complex clinical findings into clear, defensible analysis your legal team can use. Premium nurse consulting for attorneys across Ohio and beyond.
About Melissa Rodzinak
With more than 15 years in clinical operations, regulatory compliance, and large-scale healthcare workforce management, I bring a rare combination of bedside insight and systems thinking to legal nurse consulting. I've led Joint Commission readiness, audits, and compliance programs across multiple states and hundreds of clinicians.
As a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant (CLNC), I work closely with attorneys to read what the record actually says, flag what others miss, and turn dense clinical detail into analysis a legal team can act on with confidence. Every engagement is hands-on, responsive, and built around your matter — handled by me directly, never passed to a junior reviewer.
Where I Add the Most Value
I focus on two areas where clinical nuance decides outcomes — where understanding the chart, the timeline, and the standard of care changes the strategy.
Medical causation, treatment appropriateness, and recovery timelines analyzed against the record so you can argue compensability and extent of injury with clinical authority.
Detailed review of care records, staffing, and documentation to identify breakdowns in care, deviations from standards, and the medical story behind a neglect or abuse claim.
Also Available for Related Matters
Standard-of-care screening and record analysis to help you assess merit early and build a clinically grounded, defensible theory of the case.
Injury-to-record correlation, treatment review, and clear chronologies that connect the medicine to your damages and causation arguments.
What I Deliver
A thorough read of the record to identify what matters, what's missing, and what the clinical evidence actually supports.
A clean, defensible sequence of events drawn from the record — the backbone of causation, damages, and case strategy.
An assessment of whether care met accepted clinical standards, with the deviations and supporting evidence clearly identified.
Help identifying the right expert and preparing them — translating between your legal strategy and the clinical specifics.
Targeted questions, medical context, and clinical preparation so you walk into depositions and trial fully grounded in the medicine.
Plain-language briefings that make the record understandable to your whole team — no jargon, no guesswork.
How I Work
We talk through the matter, the medical questions at stake, your timeline, and exactly what you need to move forward.
I go inside the record — identifying what matters, what's missing, and what the clinical evidence supports.
You receive a clear, defensible analysis: chronology, standard-of-care observations, and the strengths and gaps in the case.
I stay with you through expert prep, depositions, and trial — adapting as the case develops.
Why Rodzinak
Fifteen-plus years of real clinical and compliance experience — I speak the language of medicine with authority, not from a textbook.
Every finding is grounded in the record and built to hold up under scrutiny — the kind of work that strengthens a case rather than complicating it.
A background in compliance and audits means nothing slips through — I find the patterns, gaps, and inconsistencies others overlook.
No jargon, no ambiguity. You always know where your case analysis stands and what comes next.
Legal timelines don't wait. I work with urgency and consistently meet the deadlines that matter to your case.
I take on a focused caseload so every matter gets my direct, personal attention — never handed off to a junior reviewer.
Get In Touch
Ready to move forward? Reach out directly, or use the attorney intake form to submit the details of your matter. I respond within 1–2 business days.