The first step to becoming a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant is getting certified. The trademark CLNC Certification Program is the core of every CLNC Certification System: Basic, Executive, VIP and VIP Pro.

Taught by the pioneer of legal nurse consulting, LegalNurse.com’s CLNC Certification Program is the proven industry standard for legal nurse consulting certification. Developed and perfected through 42 years of legal nurse consulting experience, the CLNC Certification Program gives you the essential foundation for building your legal nurse consulting business.

Covering topics from how you fit into the litigation process to analyzing medical-related cases, the CLNC Certification Program is packed with the Institute’s vast experience plus that of thousands of practicing CLNC consultants whom the Institute has trained and mentored.

CLNC^® Certification Program (Online Video)

Our CLNC Online Certification Program allows you to study around your busy schedule. With 40 hours of video you will feel like you are learning up close and personal with the instructors.

This activity provides 44.63 contact hours for the nurse. The learner-paced contact hours expire 1 year after purchase.

LegalNurse.com is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

• Study this program at your own pace on your computer, smart phone or tablet.
• Review the program as often as you like to master every detail. Experts say repetition increases the ability to translate learning into action.
• Call the Institute with any questions you have while studying the CLNC Certification Program.
• Take your CLNC Certification Exam online. One exam fee is included in the cost of the program.

You have up to one year from the date of purchase to complete the CLNC Online Certification Program.

The First and Most Widely Recognized Legal Nurse Consultant Certification in the U.S.

Attorneys nationwide recognize and trust the trademark CLNC Certification and the specialized professional training it represents. The CLNC Certification is the official certification of the National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants (NACLNC^®).

You will take the CLNC Certification Exam online after completion of the CLNC Online Certification Program.

Your Ready-to-Use CLNC Marketing Center

Start marketing to attorneys immediately. Launch your CLNC business with the CLNC Marketing Templates in our exclusive CLNC Marketing Center. You don’t have to spend time and money to design your promotional package. Our expert writers and professional designers have done it for you. Our CLNC Marketing Templates will save you thousands of dollars.

All you do is select the marketing materials you want to purchase and add your contact details. Then simply place your order and your CLNC Marketing Essentials will be delivered to you. Choose from brochures, business cards, letterhead, envelopes, CLNC Wear, promotional items and more!

Your CLNC Marketing Templates Do the Work For You

Your CLNC Marketing Templates are backed by 42 years of the Institute’s research and development in the legal nurse consulting field and the expertise of our team of professional writers and designers. And it’s available for purchase with any CLNC Certification System. Access to the CLNC Marketing Center is exclusive to Certified Legal Nurse Consultants only.

We Guide You Every Step of the Way

We want you to succeed. That’s why we developed the FREE CLNC Mentoring Program. At the Institute, we guarantee your relationship actually intensifies once you are certified as a legal nurse consultant and ready to get started. Our CLNC Mentors are there to coach, advise and mentor you FREE for as long as you remain certified.

Receive FREE coaching and mentoring with any CLNC Certification System. As long as you remain certified as a CLNC consultant, you receive free mentoring for every question you have. You can rely on the CLNC Mentors to guide you every step of the way. Hands down, our CLNC Mentoring Program has proven to be everyone’s favorite benefit. The CLNC Mentors, who are full-time practicing CLNC consultants, help you:

• Market your CLNC business with a wealth of proven strategies.
• Develop superb work product to gain even more business.
• Manage your CLNC business for maximum profitability.
• Succeed through unprecedented CLNC expertise.

With the VIP Pro CLNC Certification System, you’ll receive FREE Unlimited Priority CLNC Mentoring as long as you remain certified.

Plus Networking Sessions with Your CLNC Peers

You’ll be invited to join a LIVE (Zoom) group mentoring session monthly with the CLNC Mentors to get all of your legal nurse consulting questions answered. You’ll also benefit from the questions of your CLNC peers. No question goes unanswered and you can be sure there will be some you haven’t thought of yet!

These group mentoring sessions will also include interactive role playing where you can apply the principles you’ve learned in the CLNC Certification Program to real-life experiences. And, as an additional benefit, you’ll be able to introduce yourself to, and network with, your CLNC peers for subcontracting, locating experts, support and more.

There’s nothing more powerful than a group of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants all in the same room together. These group mentoring sessions are your opportunity to get social with your CLNC peers as you gain insider information and discover new insights to advance your CLNC business.

Instant National Exposure to Attorneys in Every State

As a member of the NACLNC Association, you get a FREE listing in the NACLNC Online Directory. Everything about the fully searchable NACLNC Online Directory is designed to put your CLNC business in front of more attorneys and more CLNC consultants.

The Institute promotes your CLNC business nationally to more than 1,300,000 attorneys in the U.S. Your FREE Directory listing 24/7 in the largest directory of legal nurse consultants and is the centerpiece of your Internet marketing strategy.

With this fully searchable directory, attorneys find you by location or nursing specialty, then call or email you instantly and privately.

As a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, you receive FREE membership in the National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants (NACLNC), the world’s largest legal nurse consulting association with thousands of members.

• Instant Professional Network for consulting and subcontracting with thousands of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants in the U.S.
• Live (Zoom) Group Mentoring with the CLNC Mentors – You’ll have the opportunity to join a LIVE (Zoom) group mentoring session monthly with the CLNC Mentors to get all of your legal nurse consulting questions answered. You’ll also benefit from the questions of your CLNC peers. No question goes unanswered and you can be sure there will be some you haven’t thought of yet! There’s nothing more powerful than a group of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants all in the same room together. The additional benefit, you’ll be able to network with your CLNC peers as you gain insider information and discover new insights to advance your CLNC business.
• Advanced Legal Nurse Consulting Webinars – Advanced legal nurse consulting Webinars to keep you up to date on the latest legal nurse issues presented by the most successful CLNC Pros in the industry. Gain access to the live Webinars covering cutting edge topics such as the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Fall Risk Assessment Cases.
• FREE Listing in the NACLNC Online Directory means that attorneys will come straight to you. The Institute promotes you 24/7 as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant to more than 1,300,000 attorneys in the U.S. As the largest directory of legal nurse consultants, attorneys find you by location or nursing specialty, then call or email you instantly and privately. Also access to thousands of CLNC consultants, searchable by state or nursing specialty.
• FREE Publicity – When reporters want to interview Certified Legal Nurse Consultants, they call us. If you have a successful CLNC business or have consulted on a notable case, call 713.942.2200.
• CLNC Registered Certification Mark added to your credentials. CLNC is a federally registered certification mark and represents the official certification of the National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants (NACLNC). Attorneys nationwide rely on specially trained RNs with the trademark CLNC Certification. Its use is permitted only to those who have met and maintained national certification standards.
• CLNC Marketing Center – Start marketing to attorneys immediately. Launch your CLNC business with the CLNC Marketing Templates in our exclusive CLNC Marketing Center. All you do is select the marketing materials you want to purchase and add your contact details. Then simply place your order and your CLNC Marketing Essentials will be delivered to you. Choose from brochures, business cards, letterhead, envelopes and more! Check out the CLNC Wear and promotional items too.
• NACLNC Rewards – NACLNC Rewards is your exclusive member perks program. Certified Legal Nurse Consultants receive access to a wide variety of money saving offers, including discount tickets, cars, rentals and hotels; as well as amazing product and service deals for your everyday needs.
• FREE Downloadable NACLNC Member Seal – Give your CLNC business instant recognition by attorneys nationwide by adding the trusted NACLNC brand to your website and email signature. The NACLNC member seal assures attorneys you are a certified member in good standing of the most authoritative association in legal nurse consulting.
• Exclusive Resources for CLNC Consultants – LegalNurse.com is the leader in developing cutting-edge products for the Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, such as the Marketing and Report Writing Apprenticeships.
• FREE NACLNC Association Online Benefits – Extensive online resources and templates available exclusively to NACLNC members:
  • Attorney Interview Questions – 18 of the most frequently asked questions complete with proven seal-the-deal answers.
  • Business Forms and Templates – Developed specifically for CLNC consultants. You’ll save time and formatting headaches when you use LegalNurse.com copyrighted forms which include the CLNC invoice, chronological timeline template and Case Screening Form, PLUS more. All CLNC forms are ready for you to print and customize how you wish.

Develop Your 90-Day Marketing Plan

You’ll walk away with:

• Your 90-day marketing plan.
• A 30-second elevator speech.
• Your unique selling position (USP).
• The marketing know-how and 9 vital marketing strategies to put your CLNC expertise into action.

PLUS you’ll master the marketing skills to:

• Set appointments with attorneys.
• Master the sales cycle.
• Launch your CLNC business using the CLNC Marketing Center templates.

LIVE (Zoom) Interactive Workshop Quarterly

Participate as often as you like to master marketing and receive real-time feedback from a Mentor with decades of legal nurse consulting experience.

Master Report Writing

You’ll gain real-world experience as you:

• Write a brief report to use as your sample CLNC work product.
• Write a chronological timeline to use as your sample CLNC work product.
• Develop interrogatories, requests for production and deposition questions.

PLUS you’ll discover secrets writing experts know:

• How to avoid 10 common report writing pitfalls.
• How to apply 10 professional writing tips.

This Online activity provides 3.42 contact hours for the nurse.
The learner-paced contact hours expire 1 year after date of purchase.

LegalNurse.com is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

LIVE (Zoom) Interactive Workshop Quarterly

Participate as often as you like to master report writing and receive real-time feedback from a Mentor with decades of legal nurse consulting experience.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed not just the world, but also litigation forever. It’s obvious that the future will bring myriad COVID-19 related lawsuits. Certified Legal Nurse Consultants are pivotal to attorneys understanding the complexities of COVID-19, its transmission, pathophysiology, standards of care, long term complications and much more.

As a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant you are ideally placed to position yourself for this new and emerging litigation, all of which could conceivably last for a decade or more. In the course COVID-19 Lawsuits you’ll learn the types of COVID-19 lawsuits, possible allegations and defenses, the CLNC consultant’s role, the specific CLNC services you can provide as well as the factors that will affect COVID-19 litigation. Plus, you’ll learn how to locate and strategically market to the attorneys handling COVID-19 cases so that you can be a vital part of this new and emerging field.

Advance Your CLNC^® Business to the NEXT LEVEL

Gain access to an exclusive library of audio presentations and textbooks covering every possible legal nurse consulting topic. You’ll quickly grow your CLNC business with this advanced collection of time-tested strategies from the most successful CLNC Pros in the industry.

Practice-building topic areas covered include:

Case Evaluation

1. Avoid Missteps in Fall Cases
2. Confront the Issues in Sexual Abuse Cases from Infants to Seniors
3. Decipher the Complexities of the Electronic Medical Record for Your Attorney-Clients
4. Defend an Elder Abuse Case from Start to Finish Using 29 CLNC Services
5. Dig Up Unusual Suspects and Unusual Cases in Will Contests and Guardianship Revocation
6. Establish Long Term Clients with Short and Long Term Disability Cases
7. Fight the War on Healthcare Fraud Like a CLNC Pro
8. Get a Head Start on Your Brain Trauma Cases
9. Right or Wrong – Help Your Attorney-Clients Create the Best Defense for Nurses
10. Take the Sting Out of End-of-Life Pain Management Cases

CLNC^® Services

11. Insurance Companies and the CLNC Consultant – Roles, Responsibilities and Opportunities
12. Shape Fair and Balanced Defense Medical Exams
13. Understand the 12 Jurors and Your Role as a CLNC Consultant at Trial

Criminal Cases

14. Lock Down the Medical Issues in Criminal Cases

Entrepreneurship

15. The 10 Most Common Traps Successful Certified Legal Nurse Consultants Avoid
16. 10 Game-Changing Questions Every CLNC Consultant Must Ask
17. Live a 7-Day Weekend All Week Long as a CLNC Consultant
18. Pirate Your Way to CLNC Success

Medical-Malpractice Cases

19. Analyze Neonatal Hypoxic Encephalopathy Brain Injury Cases Like a CLNC Pro
20. Bring Home the Bacon with Home Healthcare Cases
21. Capitalize on the Growth of Outpatient Surgery Anesthesia Cases
22. Crank Up the Pulse on Your Cardio Vascular Cases
23. Cut to the Chase in Colon Cancer Cases
24. Deliver the Best Outcomes for Your Attorney-Clients in Obstetrical Cases
25. Examine Preterm Labor Issues for Your Winning CLNC Reports
26. Get to the Sweet Spot in Neonatal Hypoglycemia Brain Injury Cases
27. Increase the Flow of Your CLNC Business with Anticoagulation Cases
28. Infiltrate IV Therapy Cases with Your CLNC Expertise
29. Lance Through Undiagnosed Thoracic Spinal Epidural Cases Like a CLNC Pro
30. Manipulate Robotic Surgery Cases Without Resorting to Autopilot Strategies
31. Operating Room Secrets for the Non-OR Certified Legal Nurse Consultant
32. Put Some Backbone into Your Spinal Cord Cases
33. Radiate Confidence in Oncology Cases Like a CLNC Pro
34. Retain More Attorney-Clients in Surgical Retention Cases
35. Rise Above the Fray with Air Transport Medical Malpractice Cases
36. Simplify Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Cases for Attorneys
37. Simplify the Complications of Neonatal Intravascular Infusion Cases
38. Stabilize Complex Emergency Department Triage Issues for Your Attorney-Clients
39. Take the Trauma Out of Your Attorney-Client’s Emergency Cases
40. Turn Up the Heat in Your Vulnerable Adult Burn Cases
41. Unravel Patient Misidentification Issues for Your Attorney-Clients
42. Wake Up to a New Take on Anesthesia Cases
43. Wake Up to a Stronger Understanding of OB Anesthesia Cases

Personal Injury

44. The CLNC Consultant’s Role in Defending Injury Cases Against Corporations
45. Make Soft Tissue Injury Cases Easy for Your Attorney-Clients
46. There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Information (TMI) in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Cases
47. Trauma in the Fast Lane: Speed Through Motor Vehicle Accident Cases

Products Liability Cases

48. Install FDA-Regulated Medical Device Cases into Your CLNC Business

Workers’ Compensation Cases

49. Find the Hidden Savings in Work-Related Injury Cases

Real Cases You’ll Refer to Over and Over Again

Learn from the best. The most successful CLNC Pros in the country guide you in developing thorough, memorable reports.

Discover winning formats. Become an expert in case study analysis. And gain access to hundreds of phrases you’ll use over and over again in your own reports – your foremost marketing strategy proven to gain you repeat business and referrals.

79 Medical-Related Case Reports in 43 Volumes

PLUS Contracts Textbook

You will save thousands of dollars with the 11 different contracts that you will immediately put to use in your CLNC business.

11 Customizable Contracts Templates

1. Confirmation of Fees Letter
2. Confirmation of Fees Letter Agreement
3. Cover Letter for Transmittal of Contract
4. Expert Locating Letter Agreement
5. Expert Services Letter Agreement
6. Expert Witness Confirmation of Fees Letter Agreement
7. Expert Witness Referral and Services Agreement
8. Services Rendered for Attorney Agreement
9. Strategic Alliance Agreement
10. Subcontractor Services Agreement
11. Subcontractor Services Agreement Amendment
12. Plus you receive the Contracts! Contracts! Contracts! textbook.

You’ve heard the saying “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” But now you do! With LegalNurse.com’s exclusive Attorney Interview Virtual Workshop you get to practice that first impression over and over again until you get it right. We take the fear out of interviewing with attorneys.

As long as you’re CLNC certified, you are invited to the Institute’s LIVE Zoom Interview Workshops. Attend as many as you want. This is your chance to go face-to-face in a practice interview. These workshops will get you ready for your first, second and every other interview you’ll have with prospective attorney-clients.

As an RN you know that practice and demonstration are the keys to mastering anything. After participation with the Attorney Interview Virtual Workshops you’ll be ready for any attorney that crosses your path.

Exhibit Your CLNC^® Business Like a Pro with a Pro*

An Institute Marketing Mentor coaches you in person at a legal conference so you can capitalize on this instant selling platform where attorneys eager to do business come to you. Get hired on the spot!

Certified Legal Nurse Consultant Karla Smit was excited to find that, “The attorneys are here to find Certified Legal Nurse Consultants to help them with cases. They are engaging and engaged, and they have cases in mind to give us.”

*Exhibiting must be scheduled within one year of date of purchase.

We Create and Place the Ad for You*

Benefit from massive advertising exposure and the Institute’s 41 years of unparalleled reputation among attorneys. Your name, credentials, specialty and contact information will appear (professional headshot optional). Upon publication you will receive a 1/6 page print-ready advertisement to use in your own marketing materials.

*Ad must be submitted within one year of date of purchase.

We Market Your CLNC^® Business for You 24/7*

Drive more traffic to your NACLNC Online Directory listing with a priority position. Be one of the top 3 CLNC consultants an attorney sees in your specialty and/or geographic location.

5 Upgrades Optimize Your Listing with Attention-Grabbing Power

Easy to set up in minutes, these 5 listing upgrades make you stand out:

• Description of Your CLNC Business
• Resume
• Link to Your Website
• Boldface Listing
• Photo Feature

*Upgrades must be set up within one year of date of purchase.