About Us
Marti Smith Rodolfo, RN | Founder & Principal Consultant, Pre-Litigation Reviews
Professional Overview
Marti Smith Rodolfo, RN is a medical-legal consultant with more than seventeen years of bedside nursing experience and fourteen years of labor, regulatory, and arbitration advocacy. Her work sits at the intersection of medicine and law, helping plaintiff attorneys quickly identify case merit, causation pathways, documentation failures, and regulatory concerns during the earliest stages of litigation.
Marti founded Pre-Litigation Reviews to provide clear, attorney-ready analyses of medical records that support case viability decisions, early settlement strategy, and expert-witness preparation.
A Career Built at the Intersection of Medicine and Law
Marti’s background includes extensive service in high-acuity clinical environments—followed by more than a decade in legislative, arbitration, and regulatory advocacy with National Nurses United/California Nurses Association.
This combination of bedside expertise and analytic advocacy work informs the structured, attorney-focused writing style she brings to every case.
Medical-Legal Expertise
Marti supports plaintiff's attorneys through:
- Full range of merit review and analysis
- Detailed clinical chronologies
- Institutional negligence evaluations
- Nursing home and long-term care reviews
- Emergency and acute care case analysis
- Regulatory and standard-of-care comparisons
- Expert-witness coordination and early case strategy support
Her reports emphasize clarity, defensibility, and the breach–causation–damages framework legal teams rely on.
Clinical Background
Marti has direct bedside experience in the following specialties:
Emergency
Trauma
Cardiovascular care
Respiratory care
Critical Care (ICU)
Pediatrics
Pre-Hospital / EMS-related interfaces
Ambulatory Surgery & Procedural Care
Endoscopy
Philosophy
Her work is grounded in ethical transparency, meticulous clinical reasoning, patient-centered advocacy, accountability within healthcare systems, evidence-based evaluation of breach, causation, and damages.
Contact
Marti Smith Rodolfo, RN
312-543-7564 (voice or text)
marti@prelitigationreviews.com