Susan Updike
532 5th Street
Manhatten Beach, CA 90266
c 310-625-8610
f 310-376-5012
sue.updike@verizon.net
Susan Updike is a Legal Nurse Consultant who functions in the capacity of a comprehensive medical legal expert witness. She is well known as a medical legal consultant, and has worked in that capacity since completing law school in 1984. She has provided a wide variety of services both internally for California law firms, and consulting services. She performs analysis of medical records, prepares summaries, chronologies, and educates attorneys on medical issues. Ms. Updike lends consultative services to both defense and plaintiff bar on a wide array of medical issues and cases ranging from straightforward to extremely complex. She has vast registered nursing experience working in California, Illinois and Louisiana, both in hospitals and as a patient advocate coordinating care, treatment, and negotiating medical claims and billing. Ms. Updike is knowledgeable in standards of care, diagnosis, treatment, and identifying appropriate outside resources.