Connecting attorneys with trusted medical experts nationwide
Truth, Justice, and Accountability in Medicine. For the past 40 years, that has been our passion. We provide the legal profession with the highest-caliber medical experts to assist with the many levels of your cases that need medical expert testimony. From the initial review for merit to providing expert trial testimony, our medical experts are prepared to teach the attorney the medicine and help coordinate the medical aspects of your case, including assistance with deposition and trial preparation. We think of ourselves as part of your team. Your success is our success.
Since 1986, Rieback Medical Legal Consultants has been the premier Medical Malpractice Expert Consulting Firm serving the “Best” of America’s attorneys. Because of our high standards, dedication, and commitment to the legal community, we have been privileged to work with innumerable past presidents of ATLA/AAJ, past and present state trial lawyer presidents, as well as many of the brightest and most accomplished medical malpractice and personal injury attorneys in the United States, Canada, and parts of Europe.
Our focus is and has always been on doing the best job for our attorneys and their clients. We have worked for 40 years building relationships with medical malpractice and personal injury attorneys, and with the most highly qualified medical and nursing professionals who have a sincere desire to keep the standards of medical care and the practice of law high. We make a difference.
Our goal has never been accumulating huge lists of names of medical experts and charging attorneys for providing their names and moving on. We are here for you. When a hedge fund or large company owns an expert referral service, it's not about the case; it's about the money.
– Ellen Rieback
Rieback Medical-Legal Consultants has helped me find the truth time and time again. I would recommend you without hesitation to any trial lawyer who seeks the most qualified experts in the country.
Our Experts Have a Sincere Desire to Keep the Standards of Medical Care and Testimony High.
We see ourselves as an integral part of your team, working closely with you to understand the specific needs of your case from a medical standpoint and provide the guidance and support you need to succeed. As a key part of your team, we serve as an essential resource throughout the process. When you work with Rieback Medical-Legal Consultants, you can trust that you're getting the highest level of expertise and professionalism in the industry.
Our network of medical professionals includes a wide range of specialties, both common specialties and rare sub-specialties. Our experts are highly skilled, highly credentialed professionals – the same people we'd trust to care for our loved ones – and willing to “call it like they see it.”
The experts you have provided to me for review of cases were highly credentialed, articulate, very accessible, and had a sincere concern for giving a proper evaluation.
Our job is to ensure a thorough and timely review of your potential case from a medical witness perspective. We work with you to ensure compliance with deadlines, keeping in mind the statutes of limitations and other crucial timelines. We meticulously handle each case to ensure an expeditious turnaround time, and in urgent situations, we can turn around our evaluations within 24 hours.
The experts you have introduced to me have been, without exception, highly credentialed, ethical, knowledgeable on the issues, objective and willing to testify in person at my trials.
As your case progresses, our medical experts will provide ongoing consultations, deposition preparation, and guidance on the avenues you may be able to pursue from a medical perspective.
Expediting the assessment of the case by an expert is a priority, and you and your firm do it at lightning speed!
Our expert physicians are available for depositions, hearings, and trial testimony when needed. Whether you require testimony for medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, or personal injury claims, our medical experts are prepared to support your case.
Ellen stays personally involved in each case, at no extra charge, to insure that the attorney gets legitimate information and ready access to the doctor.
We'll discuss the details of your potential case and help you assess whether it's worth investing your time and resources.
[The expert witness] was very prepared and authoritative. Her answers were right on point and she supported them with facts, but she came across as very sincere and persuasive. I wish I could use her on every one of my cases!
Our rigorous vetting process ensures that every medical expert in our network meets the highest standards of expertise, professionalism, and ethical conduct. We hand-select top medical professionals in over 100 specialties, including cardiology, neurology, orthopedic surgery, and nursing home malpractice.
“Ellen Rieback knows each medical professional she recommends and subjects them to a rigorous vetting process to make sure she can recommend only the finest medical professionals as expert witnesses.”
“Your consulting physicians have credentials that are beyond reproach and maintain extraordinarily high ethical and professional standards in their work.”
“It can be extremely difficult to find qualified medical experts unwilling to bow to the pressure of colleagues and other medical organizations. Your firm saves us valuable time by putting us in touch with qualified experts who are willing to speak the truth.”
“As Ben Franklin once said, ‘Small leaks sink large ships.’ One bad expert can doom a case. Due in no small part to your help, after having handled birth injury cases for over 30 years, I have yet to lose a ‘ship.’”
At Rieback Medical-Legal Consultants, we recognize the critical role medical expert witnesses play in achieving justice. We provide expert witnesses across a wide range of medical disciplines, ensuring attorneys have access to highly credentialed professionals who can provide the insights needed to strengthen their cases. Our commitment to excellence is evident in our rigorous vetting process, ensuring that each medical expert meets the highest ethical and professional standards.
We support attorneys nationwide in cases involving:
Our services also include life care planning experts to assist with permanent injury cases. Whether you need an expert in spinal surgery, toxicology, or trauma surgery, we have the right consultant for your case.
For a thorough and expeditious review, contact us today to discuss your medical expert needs.
VIEW ALL PRACTICE AREASOur network reaches nearly every field of medicine, each represented by credentialed, board-certified experts.
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Specialty areas not listed above will be retained upon request.
At Rieback Medical-Legal Consultants, we do more than the average medical expert witness directory. We don't just provide a name—we become an integral part of your legal team. Our experts assist with:
Your staff has been particularly helpful. When I have had difficulty reaching one of your experts, your folks have made it happen. When I have had a short deadline for a report or review, you have recommended an expert who was in a position to respond quickly.
Case Highlight
When the 1978 “baby switch” at Hardee Memorial Hospital in Wauchula, Florida became one of the nation's most closely watched custody battles — chronicled by ABC News, Good Morning America, and 20/20 — Rieback Medical-Legal Consultants provided the expert witness for the case. It's the kind of high-profile, high-stakes matter that reflects the caliber of experts we connect attorneys with every day.
Source: ABC News, "Kim Mays, biological family involved in switched-at-birth scandal..."
Don't settle for an unreliable expert witness. Contact us today to connect with top medical consultants in orthopedics, neurology, toxicology, and over 100 other specialties.
Based in Fort Lauderdale, FL, Rieback Medical-Legal Consultants has been a trusted resource for attorneys nationwide for decades—let us help you win your case.
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For Physicians & Nurses
Rieback Medical-Legal Consultants is selective by design. We partner only with exceptional physicians and nurses who combine outstanding credentials with the integrity to provide honest, objective opinions. Every expert is personally vetted by our team.
Confidential review of your credentials
Rieback Medical Legal Consultants was founded and is directed by Ellen J. Rieback, R.N. Ms. Rieback is a registered nurse licensed in New York, California, and Florida. For the past 40 years, she has dedicated herself to offering the best possible medical and nursing expert witnesses for the legal profession. Ms. Rieback screens each expert’s credentials and tries to ensure their willingness to give truthful, unbiased opinions and testimony for both plaintiffs and defendants.
Ms. Rieback is available to speak with all attorneys about their cases and doesn’t delegate this job to her employees. She plays an active role in the medical malpractice expert witness selection process and helps attorneys get the most qualified medical expert who will be thorough, accessible, knowledgeable, articulate, and able to give an opinion specific to the case at hand.
Ms. Rieback prides herself on the many close working relationships she has established over the years and is proud of the active role Rieback Medical Legal Consultants has played by providing medical malpractice expert witness testimony in countless multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts.