Commonwealth Medical Legal Services assists legal and health care professionals involved in medical malpractice, personal injury, worker's compensation cases, and Medicare/ Medicaid fraud investigation. The president and founder of Commonwealth Medical Legal Services is George R. Nichols II, M.D.

Dr. Nichols provides expertise in matters of forensic pathology, clinical forensic medicine, causation of injury and defective medical devices.  He is qualified as an expert in physical injuries of infants and children, adults and elderly.  Dr. Nichols has given expert testimony in matters involving child abuse, domestic abuse, elder abuse, firearm injury, motor vehicle trauma, fires, explosions, aircraft fatalities, defective consumer devices, natural causes, occupational injury and allegations of medical negligence among other issues.  While Dr. Nichols has primarily testified for the state in criminal matters, he has testified roughly on an equal basis for plaintiff and defendant in civil trials.