Carol A. Harrington advises clients on a variety of matters, including estate, gift and generation-skipping tax issues, closely held businesses and succession planning, family office structures and issues, private trust companies, private foundations, trust and estate administration, and contested trust and tax matters. Carol is the former global head of McDermott’s Private Client Practice.
Auszeichnungen
- The National Law Journal, named one of the three most influential lawyers for Trusts & Estates 2011
- Best Lawyers in America, Lawyer of the Year: Trusts and Estates, 2010 and 2015
- Best Lawyers in America, Trusts and Estates, 1995-2026
- Chambers High Net Worth, Senior Statespeople in Illinois: Private Wealth Law and Nationwide: Private Wealth Law: Central Region, 2025-2026; Band 1 in Illinois: Private Wealth Law and Nationwide: Private Wealth Law: Central Region, 2016-2024
- Chambers USA, 2006–2015, Band 1 in Wealth Management
Internationale Märkte
Organisationen & Mitgliedschaften
- American Bar Association, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, Generation-Skipping Tax: Regulations and Legislation Committee (past chair and former member of governing body)
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Chicago Bar Association, former chair of Division I of the Trust Law Committee
- Chicago Estate Planning Council
- American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, fellow and member of Estate and Gift Tax Committee, and member of Board of Regents (1999 to 2005); former Foundation trustee
Qualifikationen
Ausbildung
- University of Illinois College of Law, JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BS, summa cum laude, with University Honors (Bronze Table)
Zulassungen
- Illinois
Sprachen
- Englisch