Practice Areas

Hospital negligence, failure to rescue, diagnostic error, surgical complications, medication errors, and long-term care negligence.

Malpractice cases rarely turn on a single dramatic event. They turn on a sequence — a change in condition that was charted but not escalated, a working diagnosis that was never revisited, an order that was written but never carried out. Those sequences are visible in the record if you know how clinical decisions are actually made.

Motor vehicle collisions, premises liability, trucking, and catastrophic injury.

Personal injury cases are won and lost on medical questions the defense will contest relentlessly: whether the injury is consistent with the mechanism, whether the condition pre-existed, whether the treatment was necessary, and what a gap in treatment actually means. Each of those is a clinical question before it is a legal one.

Deaths and serious harm in jails and prisons, brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and related state claims.

These cases require someone who understands both correctional healthcare delivery and the clinical conditions that most often go wrong inside it. Withdrawal deaths in county custody and suicides following inadequate mental health screening are the two most litigated fact patterns, and both sit directly in the clinical territory a psychiatric nurse practitioner works in every day.

Criteria-based claimant screening for firms managing large inventories.

Volume screening is a different problem from case review. The challenge is not depth on one file — it is applying the same criteria to the four hundredth file exactly as they were applied to the first, and doing it fast enough to matter. Inconsistent screening produces inventories that fall apart at the worst possible moment. 

 TRACE also reviews nursing home and long-term care negligence, wrongful death, behavioral health malpractice outside the correctional setting, and primary care matters involving missed diagnosis, delayed referral, or chronic disease mismanagement.

If your matter turns on a medical record and you're representing the injured party, it's worth a conversation. If it isn't a fit, TRACE will say so.