About Joanna M.
Joanna M. Perilli graduated from New York Law School in 2005 after completing an undergraduate degree in business and marketing at Rider University in 1998. She arrived at law school with a practical sense of commerce and a clear interest in courtroom work. Those two strands—business discipline and advocacy—have shaped the arc of her professional life.
Her practice is licensed in both New Jersey and New York. Since entering practice she has worked in litigation settings that require attention to procedure and an ability to respond quickly to changing facts. That sensibility is evident in the types of matters she handles and in the courtroom roles she has taken on.
Perilli has been recognized by SuperLawyers as a Rising Star in the area of DWI. The recognition points to a visible presence in drunk driving defense and related criminal matters. She has argued cases in municipal and state courts and has represented clients at various stages of prosecution, from arraignment through trial.
From 2008 to 2010 she taught at her alma mater, serving as an adjunct professor at Rider University. The classroom work ran alongside active practice and bar association involvement. She is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Mercer County Bar Association, both since 2005, and joined the Middlesex County Bar Association in 2010. Those memberships reflect regular participation in the local legal community and in continuing education programs aimed at practitioners.
She practices at The Law Offices of Jonathan F. Marshall. There she handles DWI and related criminal defense matters in New Jersey and New York courts. Colleagues and clients see her as a lawyer who manages casework methodically and who pays attention to procedural detail. She continues to maintain an active role in local bar associations and in courtroom advocacy, balancing trial work with client counseling.
Her current practice centers on DWI defense and criminal representation across New Jersey and New York courts.
