Claire received her Juris Doctorate in 1995 from Boston University School of Law, where she served as an editor of the American Journal of Law and Medicine and research assistant to Professor Frances Miller. After graduation, she worked as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Harry T. Lemmon, Associate Justice, at the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Prior to law school, she attended Northwestern State University where she graduated magna cum laude in 1992.

Prior to joining Marshall, Dennehey in 2008, Claire was a shareholder at Duplass and has handled a wide variety of litigation at both the trial and appellate levels in Louisiana State and Federal courts.