Ms. Foster focuses her practice on advising and defending healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, hospitals, nursing homes, social workers, psychologists, nurses and dentists. Ms. Foster also represents healthcare providers before the various state licensing boards within the Virginia Department of Health Professions including the Board of Medicine, Board of Dentistry and Board of Nursing. Ms. Foster also provides advice and guidance to hospital administrators, risk managers, and practice administrators on patient care issues, medical staff relations, medical records managements and other risk management issues. Ms. Foster’s practice also includes products liability.

Ms. Foster began her healthcare practice as a Assistant Attorney General with the Virginia Attorney General’s Office in the Mental Health/Health Services Department representing several state agencies that serve the disabled including the Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired, The Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, The Virginia Industries for the Blind, and Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center. While an Assistant Attorney General Ms. Foster also participated in investigations conducted at Virginia’s mental health hospitals by the Virginia Attorney General’s Office and the Justice Department pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). Ms. Foster also served as substitute counsel for several state licensing Boards including the Board of Psychology, Board of Medicine, Board of Nursing and Board of Dentistry.

When she entered private practice at LeClairRyan, she became, and still remains, one of the go to persons for healthcare practitioners that request representation before Virginia’s various state licensing boards and appeals before insurance credentialing committees.

Since entering private practice in 2000 Ms. Foster has successfully handled hundreds and medical malpractice cases and taken over 20 medical malpractice cases to trial in such venues as Hampton, Martinsville, Newport News, Chesterfield, Richmond, Fairfax, Danville, Williamsburg, Portsmouth, Henrico, Roanoke, and Lancaster. Most of these cases involved catastrophic injury or death. Ms. Foster has also handled appeals to the Supreme Court of Virginia.