How to Write Your Fee Schedule and Retainer Agreement
Preview the second Advanced LNC Workshop: How to Write Your Fee Schedule and Retainer Agreement!
As a Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC), it's crucial to have a well-written fee schedule and retainer agreement to ensure timely payment. A detailed contract can help prevent potential issues in the future by addressing them upfront. In addition, invoicing and collecting payments are critical aspects of running a successful independent business. This 2-hour Course covers these topics and includes sample Fee Schedules and Retainer Agreements (including a Replenishing Retainer). It also provides practical guidance for setting up your fee schedule and the important provisions that you should consider including in your retainer agreement.
- How Attorneys Get Paid
- How Much Should You Charge?
- Fee Schedules and Agreements
- Expenses
- Invoicing
- Collection Issues
- Retainers /Replenishing Retainers
Advanced LNC Training
Highly Interactive Workshops
Our Workshops offer hands-on practice in performing actual LNC work. Join us as we dive into case reviews, legal analysis, and the preparation of chronologies and expert reports. You'll receive detailed guidance on drafting these essential documents, along with your resume and other critical LNC materials.
The Workshops Also Include Extensive Written Materials with step-by-step instructions and samples of each document and report. We show you how to write your LNC and Expert Witness reports and documents in each Workshop (i.e., letters, fee agreements, chronologies, summaries, IME/DME, and numerous types of expert reports. 30-55 pages of materials and samples with each Workshop).
Access to Workshop Recordings. In addition, we provide you with a recording of each Workshop so you can draft your documents as the instructions are explained, pause to make revisions, and complete each section at your own pace. This is more than just a program; it's an immersive, hands-on experience that builds both competence and confidence.
This is not a repeat of the LNC Course. It is new materials and detailed instructions on how to write each document. Join this highly interactive monthly group class to learn the step-by-step details on how to (click on each title for details):
- Write and Polish Your LNC Resume - One of the most important documents you'll write. (Workshop available online now!)
- How to Write Your Fee Schedule and Retainer Agreement - How to make sure you get paid. (Workshop available online now!)
- How to Write Your Cover Letter / Email - How to highlight your experience. (Workshop available online now!)
- Malpractice Case Deep Dives - Improve Your Analysis Skills. (Jan. 11, 2025)
- How to Write Your LNC and Expert Witness Reports.- We provide you with over 7 real reports. (Feb. 8, 2025)
- How to Create Chronologies, Graphs, and Timelines for Your LNC and Expert Reports. - We teach you how to enhance your reports by making graphs and timelines. (Mar. 8, 2025)
- Mastering Current LNC Marketing Strategies – Part 1. - How to market on LinkedIn, create your elevator speech, and blog. (Apr. 12, 2025)
- Mastering Current LNC Marketing Strategies – Part 2. - How to exhibit at legal conferences, develop a website, and much more! (May 10, 2025)
Can't Attend? No worries! You will be given access in your account to a recording of each Workshop that you purchase. This will allow you to review and learn even more in the future and will guide you when you sit down to draft your documents and reports.
We will be starting the Advanced LNC Workshop Series Oct. 12. It will run once a month for 8 months on the second Saturday of the month. It will be a replay with live questions and answers. Sign up now with our early bird special for all 8 Workshops for $1,774.
Details
These Advanced Legal Nurse Consultant workshops will be highly interactive and frequently involve an assignment on the topic to help you prepare your LNC materials. These workshops will help you draft all the documents you need to start your LNC business. Written materials and samples of each document will be provided 3 days prior to each class.
WHEN: Monthly, on the SECOND Saturday.
TIME: 12:00-2:00 PT (2 hours).
Pricing
$247 or less if you buy more than one Workshop (except Report Writing $295). Buy more than one Workshop and you will automatically receive 10% off all the Workshops you select! The more you buy the more you save.
Each Workshop includes extensive written materials with actual examples of each document or report discussed. In addition, you will have access to a recording of each Workshop so you can use it to assist you as you write your documents and reports in the future.
CE credits available for a $15 processing fee per certificate. Each workshop will be worth 3.2 CE credits.
Installment payments available through PayPal or call the Law Office to set up.
Preview the latest Advanced LNC Workshop:
Online Workshops Available:
This series of Workshops is designed to be taken in the order provided, with each one building upon your knowledge from the prior Workshop(s). If you need to create a writing sample for potential attorney clients (using someone else's report looks bad so you need to write your own), Workshops 4 and 5 will give you the facts of a real case you can use to write a short report.
Buy 4 Workshops and receive a $150 discount plus waiver of the CE processing fee for each Workshop (a $60 value) Total discount - $210!
Buy the entire series of 8 Workshops and receive a $250 discount plus waiver of the CE processing fees (a $120 value) Total discount - $370!
What nurses who have taken these Workshops say:
"The visual information in the How to Write Your Expert Reports course was very valuable as well. Both seeing and hearing the lecture along with discussion increases retention, I believe. This class is the best report writing class I have taken, and I have taken a lot of classes! I am I glad found Laurie and I know other LNCs will be too."
Valerie Lane BSN, LNC
"Laurie you were a god-send! I needed this course in my life! I can't begin to tell you how much appreciate what you do and thankful for your knowledge."
BSN, LNC
“Thank you so much for your last class on report writing. I have found all your classes so helpful in starting my LNC journey!”
J.H.
"Laurie’s courses are incredible resources, factual, relevant, must-take, affordable, and great for new LNCs."
Andrea J. Halbach, MSNed, RNC-OB, LNC
"Thank you Laurie! I loved your class. It was the best ones I have seen. Kudos to you."
RN LNC
"Attorney Elston’s classes have been very enjoyable…Super user-friendly and welcoming no matter what your LNC experience level is. Her Workshop on How to write Nurse Expert and LNC Reports is easy to understand with AMAZING reference handouts.”
Julie, BSN RN
"This course (How to Write Your Expert Reports) was well worth the time and money invested. It is also VERY reasonable! I have a big case report that I am working on and will be implementing the education I have learned in this class immediately. Thank you!"
LNC
Invest and take Nurse Attorney Laurie Elston course versus at a University. She is the Real Deal!
Melanie Canning