The Nurse Attorney, P.A.

Marjorie Chalfant, RN, JD, spent years working critical care before she became a trial attorney, and that sequence is the whole identity of The Nurse Attorney, P.A. Founded in 1992 and licensed in Florida and Washington State, the firm concentrates on two areas that rarely share an office: medical malpractice litigation and healthcare licensing defense. Most practices pick one side of that line. The Nurse Attorney, P.A. sits on both, which is either a curious overlap or a logical one, depending on how you look at it.

Medical malpractice and licensing defense

On the malpractice side, the firm represents patients and families injured by medical error, working on contingency, so there is no fee unless the client recovers something. On the licensing side, the clients are healthcare professionals, often nurses, fighting to keep a license after a board complaint or a Department of Health investigation. A sister domain, thenursingboardattorney.com, treats the nursing-board work as its own distinct service, not an afterthought. That separation tells you the practice has enough volume in the licensing space to justify building a second front door for it.

How clinical experience shapes legal work

The dual credential is easy to put on a homepage and harder to back up in a deposition. Standard of care is the hinge of most malpractice and licensing disputes: did the provider do what a competent peer would have done? An attorney who has personally charted vitals, escalated a deteriorating patient, and lived inside hospital protocols reads those records with different instincts than someone approaching them from the outside. That familiarity with how care is delivered, and where it breaks down under pressure, maps directly onto the kind of expert testimony these cases turn on. The Nurse Attorney, P.A. leans on this throughout its site, and the claim is credible because it is grounded in a specific, verifiable career path and not a marketing assertion about empathy.

Reassurance for nurses facing board complaints

It cuts differently on the defense side, too. A nurse facing a board complaint is often terrified of losing a license that took years to earn. Being represented by someone who has done the clinical work and understands the regulatory machinery is reassuring in a way a generalist cannot replicate. That is not a small thing in a proceeding where the outcome is your livelihood.

Site features and geographic scope

Beyond those two core practice areas, the site of The Nurse Attorney, P.A. carries the supporting material you would want before picking up the phone: a reviews and testimonials page, a blog, and a separate attorney profile section that lets a prospective client read about Chalfant's experience directly. The blog does a specific job for a firm this size, since it gives someone a sense of how the attorney thinks and writes before any consultation, and it keeps the site current rather than dormant. The geographic reach covers clients throughout Florida and into Washington State, two markets that are geographically far apart and legally distinct. A client in Lakewood Ranch and a client near Seattle are both within scope, which is worth knowing up front because it tells you this is not a single-county shop.

Office locations and contact information

Contact details for The Nurse Attorney, P.A. are straightforwardly published. The Florida office lists a phone number and a street address in Lakewood Ranch; the Washington office lists its own phone and address in Federal Way. Two staffed locations with full contact routes openly displayed is a transparency decision that removes the friction of wondering whether anyone is behind the site. A solo-led practice like The Nurse Attorney, P.A. benefits from that kind of openness, because potential clients in sensitive situations are already doing a lot of vetting before they commit to a call.

Limited third-party review presence

A search for The Nurse Attorney, P.A. did not surface the usual third-party review collections with counts and star ratings. No Google, Yelp, BBB, or Avvo profile appeared with a tally attached. The firm hosts its own testimonials page, which is useful for reading client experiences but counts for less than an outside platform would, since The Nurse Attorney, P.A. controls what appears there. LinkedIn shows a single recommendation for Marjorie Chalfant, and a Lawful.com listing exists without a visible score.

None of that is unusual for a niche practice whose clients have strong privacy reasons not to post publicly about a malpractice case or a board complaint. People who survive a licensing investigation generally do not leave a Yelp review about it. So the absence of crowd-sourced ratings is not evidence of a problem, but a prospective client should know the credibility here rests on documented credentials and three decades of longevity, not on a wall of public testimonials. That is a different kind of assurance, and it is legitimate, but it is not the same as a large independent review record.

Taken together, The Nurse Attorney, P.A. presents a focused operation with a clear and specific identity. More than thirty years in practice since 1992, a clinical background that genuinely informs the legal work, contingency-fee malpractice representation, dedicated nursing-board defense, and two offices across two states with contact details openly listed. Those are verifiable facts, not slogans. The weaker point, the absence of independent review volume, deserves honest acknowledgment. The strength of The Nurse Attorney, P.A. is the depth of credentials on display and the specificity of what the practice does, which is enough for a qualified assessment even without a crowded ratings page backing it up.