Cori graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Political Science and Communication Arts. Following graduation, Cori obtained a paralegal degree from Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois and worked as a paralegal at Godfrey & Kahn in Milwaukee. She returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School in 1987 and obtained her Juris Doctor degree in 1990. For the last 19 years, her practice has been devoted entirely to that of insurance defense litigation including both civil litigation and the defense of employers in worker’s compensation cases before the State of Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.

Cori has successfully defended insurance carriers and their insureds in dozens of civil jury trials, court trials and arbitration hearings throughout Wisconsin. She has also defended insurance carriers and employers before the Department of Workforce Development. Cori has handled worker’s compensation cases on appeal to the courts of appeal and Wisconsin Supreme Court. In her representation of employers, she has defended direct claims against these companies for unreasonable refusal to rehire or wrongful termination actions.

A member of the State Bar, Wisconsin Defense Counsel, Wisconsin Association of Worker's Compensation Attorneys and the Waukesha County Bar Association. Since 2001, Cori has been a shareholder in Hills Legal Group, Ltd. She has been with the firm or the predecessor firm since 1992. Cori was admitted to the Bar in 1990 and is admitted to practice before the Wisconsin Circuit Courts, Courts of Appeal, Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin.