Bringing Quality, Compassion, and Understanding to Everyday Legal Issues
Facing “everyday” legal proceedings can be complicated, confusing, and exhausting for the average person. Finding and hiring a trustworthy and knowledgeable advocate to navigate such arduous processes is essential for protecting a client’s best interests and achieving their personal goals. As a certified attorney-at-law with decades of experience, Amy V. Cofield has established a law practice in the town of Lexington that offers these services to the local community. Throughout her career, she has successfully provided expert assistance in conventional legal areas, such as estate planning, probate administration, real estate transactions, and workers’ compensation. The professional and compassionate staff of her firm work to prioritize their clients’ legal needs to preserve their peace of mind.
Attorney Amy Cofield, a native South Carolinian, has been successfully practicing law within the state for more than three decades. Before pursuing a legal career, she had also received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education and enjoyed several years of “distinguished service” as an elementary school teacher in Anderson, South Carolina.
After deciding to change lanes in her career, Cofield earned her Juris Doctorate and joined her father, C. Thomas Cofield, III, in his existing private law practice in Anderson, South Carolina. While there, she began to develop her legal skills by building her proficiencies in judicial matters pertaining to real estate, workers’ compensation, and probate work. Even after her father’s passing in 1994, Cofield continued to uphold her standards of excellence and grow her practice, which earned the title of the first woman-owned law firm in the city.
In the early 2000s, Cofield decided to relocate her firm to the greater Columbia area, and still today, she is the owner of her own private practice at 5044 Augusta Road in Lexington, South Carolina. As the founder and operator of this firm, Cofield holds licenses to practice in both state and federal courts and maintains an active membership role in the South Carolina and Lexington County Bar Associations.
The firm is currently staffed by several dedicated legal professionals, including her son, Thomas Derrick, who is carrying on the family tradition by working as a legal assistant within the practice. According to Cofield, the practice’s aim is to create a welcoming office atmosphere that is “homey” and “not sterile or intimidating.”
Perhaps the most popular member of the legal team is the owner’s warm and fuzzy “office greeter,” a pooch named “Scarlett.” As the designated “paw-alegal,” Scarlett “brings a lot of joy and comfort to my clients in their special needs,” Cofield said.
“I believe my firm is unique in that I bring 33 years of service and offer personal attention to my clients,” she added. “The most gratifying part of my job is helping my clients with their estate planning and probate administration. It is often a difficult time for my clients, and there is nothing better than getting a hug and a thank you when they are done.”
In conjunction with probate and estate planning, the firm’s other areas of expertise continue to be real estate transactions and workers’ compensation. Specific situations to which Cofield and her team lend their expertise include seeking compensation claims for workplace injuries; closing on a new home or refinancing an existing property; providing assistance in estate planning (i.e., writing a will), designating power of attorney, and developing a life-care plan; and navigating the probate process when a loved one has passed.
When reflecting upon her thriving career history, Cofield shared that one of her most proud accomplishments in the workers’ compensation arena was when she represented clients and successfully argued and won several cases in the South Carolina Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. In these hearings, Cofield was able to personally influence important legal precedents.
The citizens of the Lexington community have also acknowledged the firm’s reputation for providing quality service by nominating and voting Cofield and her practice as “Best Real Estate Attorney, “Best Probate Attorney,” and “Best Civil Attorney” in recent polls sponsored by several local publications.
“Amy Cofield and her staff are hands down the best around!” said Ashley Ward, one of the firm’s clients. “I can’t say enough positive things about her. My husband and I are forever grateful to her and her staff, not only for helping us manage a difficult situation, but for making us truly feel like she was there for us, for making us feel like old friends, and not just another case.”
Another satisfied customer, Heidi Hoffman, agreed. “Amy and her team were so helpful and willing to go over and beyond for my husband and I,” she said. “She is professional yet personal, and I appreciate the wonderful experience that we had with her.”
With her diligent and intentional outlook, Cofield’s personal life is no less credible. In addition to being married to Jimmy Terrapin, she is also the proud mother of her two sons, Kessler and Tommy, as well as her three stepsons, Aaron, Brett, and Coleman.
Cofield serves as a current board member for Lexington Medical Center and the Lavie Pregnancy Center. She has been involved with several other service-oriented and charitable organizations, which include the Anderson County Women’s Club, Leadership Anderson, Mt. Horeb Methodist Church, Lexington Dixie Youth League Baseball, Katrina’s Kids, and South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Educational Association. As a three-degreed graduate of the University of South Carolina, Attorney Cofield continues to honor her alma mater by supporting the Gamecock Club as an “avid fan.”
Amy V. Cofield, Attorney-at-Law, LLC
5044 Augusta Road
Lexington, SC
803-399-8977