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Claire Lorch Hagedorn is a New Albany native and honor graduate of Assumption High School in Louisville. She earned her undergraduate degree in English and Spanish from Centre College in Danville, Ky and her law degree from The University of Dayton School of Law.. In college she earned membership in Sigma Delta Pi, a Spanish honor society; the dean’s list for academic achievement; and was an officer of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. While in law school, Hagedorn received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award for achieving the semester’s highest grade in Law and Education class. She also volunteered for the Montgomery County (Ohio) Public Defender’s Office in the juvenile division.. Leading up to her formal affiliation with Lorch & Naville, Hagedorn served as their law clerk in the summer of 2010 and as a clerk for Floyd County Circuit Court Judge J. Terrence Cody, in the summer of 2009.. Hagedorn is currently a member of the New Albany and Indiana State Bar Associations as well as the Sherman Minton American Inn of Court, a local group within a national consortium that convenes judges, lawyers, law professors and law students to discuss matters of ethics, skills and professionalism. She is also a member of the New Albany Rotary Club, an international service organization.

Marna has practiced law in the domestic relations field for almost 50 years and is a nationwide expert in complex divorces, domestic violence and prenuptial matters. She has been recognized several times as one of the “Top Divorce Lawyers” by Washingtonian Magazine as well as one of the “Top Lawyers” in Washington, D.C. She was noted as one of the top divorce lawyers in the nation by Town and Country. She is a Fellow of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers and a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. The Legal Times recently honored her as one of “Washington’s 90 Greatest Lawyers in the last Thirty Years.”. She has gained prominence for her leadership in the legal community, having been elected the first woman president of the District of Columbia Bar in 1984 and the first woman president of the National Conference of Bar Presidents. She chaired the Federal Judicial Center Foundation Board, having been appointed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Marna also chaired the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation and various ABA Commissions and Committees, including the Commission on Civics Education in our Nation’s Schools, the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary and the Standing Committee on Professional Discipline.. In the community, she chaired the Mayor’s Commission on Violence Against Women. She has served as a member of the Board of Regents of Georgetown University, a member of the Board of Visitors of Georgetown Law Center, and as a founding Board member of the National Women’s Law Center. She has been honored by the American Bar Association with the prestigious Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award and the Robert Drinan Distinguished Service Award. The National Organization for Women awarded her its 2008 Intrepid Woman Award.. She has also been honored by the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia as Woman Lawyer of the Year, by the National Women’s Law Center as its honoree and by the Georgetown University Law Center with its Alumni Achievement Award.. Marna has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where she received her LL.B. and a Lecturer of Law at Catholic University Columbus School of Law. She received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the District of Columbia School of Law.

Des Moines divorce lawyer Jessica A. Millage understands that divorce is one of the single most stressful events a person can experience. She finds it rewarding to advise and support her clients through that process and help them find the best resolution to a challenging situation.. Through all the chaos of divorce, Ms. Millage manages to maintain a strong sense of composure. She regularly reminds her clients in custody cases to always think about the future and not to focus only on what makes sense right now.. “Your children’s needs and schedules will change drastically as they grow up, and the adults will go through their own life changes as they move on from the relationship,” Ms. Millage said. “It’s easy to get caught up in the emotion of the situation, and my role is to help you see the big picture and find the best path to move forward.”. Prior to joining Cordell and Cordell, Ms. Millage worked for a nonprofit organization representing children in the court system, then went into private practice focusing on family, criminal, and litigation.

As a civil trial and litigation lawyer I specialize in commercial, trucking, and high-end dissolution litigation and trial practice.. I have tried a wide variety of lawsuits in State and Federal Court, including cases involving intellectual property, products liability, automobile liability, trucking liability, commercial litigation, employment law, probate law, environmental law, and zoning and planning law.