Cecily Hartsock
Founding partner, Peoria
Cecily founded the firm and reads every chart before a case is accepted.
Cecily spent her first summers in a hospital records room, filing charts, and learned to read one long before she read a statute. She started the firm to give patients a lawyer who would treat the medical record as the whole story.
She still opens each new file herself, and she is the one who calls when the answer is no.
Leads
- Case review and intake
- Diagnosis and surgical cases
- Cases that go to trial
Cecily’s admissions and schooling
Bar admissions
Illinois
1991
Iowa
1996
Courts
U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
Supreme Court of the United States
Education
J.D., University of Illinois College of Law
1991
B.A., Bradley University
1988
Languages
English
Memberships
Illinois State Bar Association
Peoria County Bar Association
How Cecily reads a chart
She starts at the end, with what happened to the patient, and works backward through the nursing notes and the orders until she finds the first place a different choice was possible.
Then she sends the file to a physician who has no stake in the outcome. If that physician sees nothing, neither does she, and she says so.
If you call the Peoria office, she may be the one who picks up.
Ask for Cecily
She will tell you what she would want to see first.
There is no fee for the review, and no fee at all unless we recover money for you. Case costs such as record fees, expert review and filing fees are set out in a written fee agreement we go through with you before you sign.