JoAnna Emery

Records Manager

I joined Forresters in 2004 and have since formed a Formalities Department and implemented the new records management system – Inprotech.

I graduated with a Bachelors degree majoring in paralegal studies/prelaw from Rivier College, a small Catholic university in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. Currently I am studying for my LLM in international intellectual property law at Queen Mary University in London. I am a member of the American Bar Association, National Association of Legal Assistants, Association of Legal Administrators, CIPA and ITMA. I am also a certified legal assistant specialist in IP in the US.

Prior to joining Forresters I worked both as an intellectual property manager and paralegal, in the US and London. The companies I worked for ranged from a US defence company to a water purification company to, more recently, a major international stock exchange.

I am married to an Englishman (the reason for my move to England) and have a very precocious young son and another son on his way! Between working, studying for my Masters and my family I don’t have much time to breathe, but enjoy reading psychological thrillers and travel.