Jessica M. Emmons Scherb

Jessica M. Emmons Scherb is an attorney at Drummond Woodsum in Portland, Maine, who represents individuals and businesses in estate planning and corporate transactions. Her estate work includes wills, trusts, family agreements, marital agreements, financial powers of attorney, health care directives, guardianship, conservatorship, and related documents. She also handles corporate succession planning, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder matters, corporate finance, private securities placements, and commercial lending matters.

Jessica earned a J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law in 2005 and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Her education supports a practice that combines detailed planning, business transactions, fiduciary concerns, and long-term client objectives. She uses that foundation to draft and structure legal documents, advise on transfers and succession, and help clients coordinate estate-planning decisions with business and family considerations.

Jessica helps estate-planning clients provide for loved ones, transfer assets in an orderly way, and address taxes and administrative costs. She represents birth parents and adoptive parents in local and interstate adoptions. In her corporate practice, she advises business owners on succession and transactional matters and represents lenders and businesses in commercial lending. She also regularly speaks on estate planning and trust and estate administration topics and authored a chapter in a practical Maine probate guide.

Jessica M. Emmons Scherb was recognized as a New England Super Lawyers Rising Star in Estate Planning & Probate and Mergers & Acquisitions from 2011 through 2019 and has been recognized by Best Lawyers USA for Trusts and Estates since 2023. She serves on the board of the Maine Estate Planning Council. Her combined estate and corporate practice helps clients address personal planning and business transitions with coordinated legal guidance.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Drummond Woodsum
• Member, Maine State Bar Association
• Member, New Hampshire Bar Association
• Member, WealthCounsel
• Board Member, Maine Estate Planning Council
• Board Member, Women’s Board of Maine Medical Center
• Member, German Shorthaired Pointer Rescue of New England
• Volunteer, Gorham Schools

Licensed State

• Maine
• New Hampshire

Education

• University of Maine School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD) (Magna Cum Laude)
• University of Pennsylvania
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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