Trachelle Cornish
Founding Partner
Trachelle L. Cornish is the founding partner of Cornish Law LLC. For the past seven years, she has worked alongside municipal government to remedy the city of blighted property by establishing the heirs of heirship property and she has worked alongside highly successful attorneys in the areas of real estate, elder law, plaintiff’s litigation, commercial litigation, title, tax, bankruptcy, and personal injury law. Additionally, she has supervised in operations with an international Fortune 500 company, accounting for trillions of dollars in revenue and a staff of 75.
Trachelle graduated from Southern University Law Center, where she received national recognition after earning a CALI Excellence for the Future Award for Legal Research. Trachelle uses her award-winning legal research skills to determine the likelihood that a client will have a successful outcome in their legal matter. From here, she can more accurately and insightfully pinpoint her clients’ advantages and disadvantages and present the most effective plan of action.
Areas of Practice
- Wills and Succession
- Trust and Estate Litigation
- Powers of Attorney
- Real Estate and Property Litigation
- Construction
- Personal Injury
- Premises Liability
- Breach of Contract
- Bankruptcy and Foreclosure Defense
- Business Formation
- Commercial Litigation
- Takings and Eminent Domain Litigation
- Title Insurance Litigation
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana
- S. District Court Eastern District of Louisiana
- S. District Court Middle District of Louisiana
- S. District Court Western District of Louisiana
- S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States of America
Education
Southern University Law Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Juris Doctorate – 2015
Bachelor of Sciences, Family and Consumer Sciences, Minor in Marketing – 2007
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American Bar Association, Member
- Louisiana State Bar Association, Member
- Baton Rouge Bar Association, Member