seeking a whistleblower attorney in Nevada

February 14, 2019 4:13 PM

Hi - I have a friend who is a medical professional and needs to report a former employer for various malpractice, but needs to not lose their career.

My friend is in a specialized medical field. They are not a doctor but work closely with doctors. They are no longer at this workplace, but are still in the field and it's not a large field. They do have evidence. I've offered to help them find an appropriate attorney, since there's enough evidence and connection to them personally that they can't just drop it somewhere anonymously.

Complication: they no longer live in Nevada, and are not even in that time zone anymore.

How do we find an appropriate attorney to take a look at this? Has anyone dealt with this? Where do we start looking? What questions do we need to ask? What do we need to know about doing something like this?

posted by anonymous to Law & Government (3 answers total)

There was an article on healthcare whistleblowing in the New Yorker one or two issues ago with some names in it.
posted by parmanparman at 4:38 PM on February 14, 2019

via Get a lawyer (MeFi Wiki)

The National Whistleblower Legal Defense and Education Fund’s (NWLDEF) Whistleblower Legal Assistance Program provides confidential referrals to lawyers who are interested in representing whistleblowers. If you do not wish to submit the referral intake form online, you may print it out, fill in the answers and send it via postal service.

posted by Little Dawn at 11:07 PM on February 14, 2019

Your friend wants to report this to the appropriate licensing board for that profession in the state. That is where discipline begins.
posted by OHenryPacey at 9:27 AM on February 15, 2019