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and in house counsel in the nation. Prior to her time on DRI's Executive Committee, Emily previously served a three year term as a National Director on the Board of Directors of DRI and as its Chair of Membership. Emily is currently serving as a Senior Advisor to DRI, and on its Nominating Committee. Emily has received numerous honors and awards across the state and nationally. In 2018 she was named Massachusetts Top Women of Law by Lawyers Weekly. In 2017, she received the Massachusetts Defense Lawyer of the Year Award by the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association (MassDLA). Emily is also a Past President of the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association and served on its Board of Directors and held various officer positions beginning in 2002. She also completed a three year term on the Massachusetts Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Appointments, and on the Massachusetts Task Force on the Future of Peremptory Challenges. 

In addition to her work for DRI and MassDLA, Emily is also an active member of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC). Membership to the IADC is by invitation only after extensive peer review. In 2015, she was selected and honored to serve on the prestigious IADC Trial Academy Faculty at Stanford University Law School, in which she taught trial skills to defense lawyers from across the country. She also served on several committees of the IADC, including as the IADC's Trial Techniques & Tactics Committee's Vice Chair of the Defense Counsel Journal. 

Emily is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America (LCA), "an honorary society of the best trial lawyers" on both sides bar. She is also a member of the esteemed, invitation only, Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (ADTA).   In 2013, Emily received DRI's Outstanding State Representative Award given to the State Representative who has "enhanced the public's view or role of the defense lawyer in the broader society." Emily has an AV© rating from Martindale-Hubbell.