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Elizabeth LaFoe Frederick, Husch Blackwell
Staff Report//April 8, 2026//
Attorney, Columbia
Elizabeth Frederick, R.N., draws on more than a decade of clinical nursing experience — in emergency medicine, intensive care, trauma and forensics — in her medical malpractice defense practice in Columbia. That background informs her work representing physicians, nurses, pharmacists and long-term care providers facing malpractice claims, license matters and regulatory challenges before professional boards and agencies in multiple states.
Frederick said healthcare defense has been “a natural fit” given her earlier career as an ER nurse. She takes a team approach to malpractice defense with a particular focus on post-acute providers, including skilled nursing and assisted living facilities.
She also presents and writes on healthcare defense topics locally and nationally.
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