About Kari L.
Kari L. Cornelison earned her law degree from The John Marshall Law School in 1996 after completing undergraduate studies at Michigan State University. Her academic path was steady and traditional. She finished law school in the mid-1990s and entered practice soon after.
She is admitted to practice in both Illinois and Florida. Early in her career she joined private practice and eventually became part of the firm Kulerski & Cornelison. Over the years she has balanced courtroom work with negotiated settlements. Colleagues describe her as pragmatic in handling routine and complex family law matters.
Cornelison’s professional affiliations reflect a strong orientation toward collaborative dispute resolution. She is a co-founder of the Illinois Cooperative Divorce Law Center.com. She holds fellowship status with the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals and the Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois. She is also a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, and the Florida Bar Association.
Those memberships and fellowships inform how she approaches cases. She frequently works on divorce matters using collaborative processes and mediated settlement techniques. She handles the practical tasks that follow separation—property division, parenting plans, alimony—and she often helps clients steer clear of protracted litigation. Her practice has included both represented negotiations and the filing of pleadings when cases move to court.
Her work at Kulerski & Cornelison is split between two metropolitan offices. She maintains an Oak Brook office and a Chicago office. That presence in both suburbs and the city allows her to meet clients across Cook and DuPage counties and to appear in courts throughout the region when necessary.
Outside of client work she participates in the professional groups aligned with collaborative law. She presents and attends continuing legal education programs tied to family law and settlement techniques. She has not been publicly identified with landmark appellate rulings or published monographs, but she is visible in local legal circles through her association work and collaborative practice activities.
She currently concentrates her practice on collaborative divorce and related family law matters.
