Alana Whitfield, RN, JD

About Alana

Before she was a lawyer, Alana Whitfield spent nine years as an ICU nurse at a Manhattan teaching hospital. She has run codes, charted through twelve-hour nights, and seen up close the difference between a tragic outcome and a preventable one. When a preventable one changed the life of a patient she had cared for, she enrolled at NYU Law to learn how to do something about it.

Alana leads the firm's medical malpractice practice. Because she reads charts fluently, she can screen cases other firms can't judge without paying an expert first. That means families get an honest answer in days, not months. When a case is strong, she builds it the way she charted: carefully, in order, and with nothing left out.

Malpractice cases carry one of New York's shortest deadlines, generally two and a half years. Alana's advice is simple: call early, even if you're only wondering.

Highlights

• Nine years as an ICU nurse before law school
• Reads the medical chart herself, before any expert does
• Screens possible malpractice cases at no cost to the family

Cases Alana leads

• Medical Malpractice