So RNG was hatched offering nurses a company that cares for them like they care for everyone else: preventative measures most of the time, triage when necessary.

The Firm kept getting phone calls from RNs seeking representation with BRN investigations and asking for career advice because of defamatory complaints made by their peers. At first, the influx of RN calls came as somewhat of a shock to the labor and employment law firm that specializes in administrative hearings and appeals because the Firms flagship practice was representing public employee associations. Upon further review it began to make sense. Administrative hearings are like real court hearings, where there is a real judge who makes a decision based on real testimony and Public Employee Associations are similar to Nursing Associations.

The results are the same as well. A botched administrative hearing is just as severe for a police officer as it is for a registered nurse: the officer or nurse is done, ruined and they are not going to work in that field again. They have to go back to college or trade school and start over. When faced with such life-shattering possibilities, RNs were seeking out the best attorneys for the job. And Goyette and Associates' phones kept ringing.

Not surprisingly, Goyette and Associates' lawyers won every single time they went up against the BRN and the ecstatically grateful RNs were able to keep their licenses, got to go on with their lives and could keep doing the jobs they love. But private representation is not cheap, everyone knows that. Even the simplest letter or phone call can cost thousands. Having a lawyer with the kind of track record of success that Goyette and Associates is known for attend a hearing could cost tens of thousands.

Thanks to 20 years of experience in dealing specifically with disciplinary cases just like a BRN investigation, the inner workings of an administrative hearing were second nature to Goyette and Associates' team. They were able to create an efficient, effective that allowed them to provide top-notch legal representation at a much lower rate (a rate more in line with the rate they gave their Public Safety Associations).

At the time, the Firm was on retainer with approximately 125 different associations in California, which means that the association picks up the tab to represent an individual member of the association. The Goyette team soon realized this isn't the case with RNs and their associations. Their associations don't pick up the tab because the associations are advocacy groups; most don't function like a union.

The partners at Goyette and Associates began to think about the problem and talk about ways they could help RNs get access to the legal services they so desperately needed. "What if there was a way that we could offer the benefit of a retainer relationship to individual nurses at a cost that would make sense to them?" they said. It just didn't seem fair to charge a full rate for something that came to the Firm so easily.

So they didn't. They developed a plan that would provide a full range of legal services and license protection options to RNs at a price they could really afford. And RN Guardian was born.