Andrea “Andi” Cornelison is delighted to serve her neighbors in Bluffton to build their legacy plans. Andi has practiced estate planning for several years, partnering with families to meet their relational and financial goals in designing and drafting comprehensive packages for trusts, wills, and powers of attorney. Her new office is located at 110 Traders Cross Road, Okatie, SC, five minutes from Sun City Hilton Head, where she lives. Andi also does free home visits and consultations in Bluffton.
Prior to working in estate planning, Andi practiced for more than 17 years in Columbia at one of the country’s 100 largest corporate defense firms primarily in national business litigation, product liability and class action matters, where she won the firm’s pro bono services award and served in several community and S.C. Bar association leadership positions.
Andi’s first career was in radio and television in South Carolina’s capital city. As a radio news director, she won two Associated Press awards for journalism and served on the S.C. Associated Press Board of Directors. She then co-hosted the morning show at WCOS radio in Columbia, where she won the 1997 Country Music Association’s medium market radio “Personality of the Year” and the show was voted “The Best Morning Radio Show” by the readers of the State Newspaper.
Areas of Practice
- Estate Planning: Trusts, Wills and Powers of Attorney
Professional Associations and Memberships
- South Carolina Bar Association, Member
- Wealthcounsel Member
Community Service
- Chapin Christian Community Church
- DivorceCare ministry facilitator
- Sunday School facilitator
- Leadership Columbia, Class 2000
- S.C. Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Division
- Chair: Bar Tab Newsletter, Winner of ABA Newsletter of the Year
- Chair: Lunch and Learn Committee
- Trustus Theatre, Columbia, S.C., Board member 2001-2003
Education
- University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina
- Juris Doctorate, Cum Laude. 2000
- Editor-in-Chief of the ABA Real Property Probate and Trust Journal
- 6 CALI awards for best performance in class
- Order of the Coif (Top 10%)
- John Belton O’Neal Inn of Court
- Outstanding Senior Research Paper Award 2000 (awarded by the S.C. Supreme Court)
- University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
- BA, Cum Laude: Broadcast Journalism and International Studies, 1989
- National Merit Scholar
