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.

As a national authority on the federal generation-skipping tax, Carol has advised attorneys, tax professionals, executors, trustees and other nationwide on this issue. She is co-author of a tax treatise, Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax (Harrington, Kwon & Zaritsky), the author of the BNA Tax Management Portfolio, Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, and has published many articles on the federal generation-skipping tax. Carol speaks frequently before professional and industry groups on tax, estate planning and succession issues.

Frédéric Pradelles focuses his practice on French and European competition law. He regularly advises international clients in abuse of dominance cases, cartel investigations and on distribution matters, notably in the context of litigation before the French and European competition authorities and courts.

Frédéric also advises clients in global, European and national merger control cases, including Phase II cases. He has extensive experience in the notification of strategic alliances and joint ventures as well as negotiating innovative remedies to secure antitrust approval for the deals on which he advises.

On the litigation side, Frédéric represents clients before the French competition authority, the French Government antitrust agency (DGCCRF) and the European Commission. He also regularly appears as a litigator before the courts in France and the European Courts in Luxembourg. Frédéric has extensive experience in summary proceedings in the field of antitrust, and in interim measures and commitments proceedings before the French Competition Authority.

Frédéric advises clients active in various industries, particularly in the retail, services, transportation, media, hospitality, information technology and banking/finance sectors.

Jeffrey E. Stone is a nationally recognized trial lawyer who has tried more than 40 federal and state jury trials to verdict, in addition to dozens of bench trials, arbitrations and contested regulatory hearings. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he has served as a Regent of the College and currently serves as its Treasurer.

Over more than 40 years as a trial lawyer, Jeffrey has served as both a federal prosecutor and an attorney representing corporations, boards of directors, board committees, executives and other individuals. He has been involved in a wide variety of complex civil litigation and criminal prosecutions across a broad range of industries, including health care, manufacturing, tobacco, high technology and financial services. He has been named one of the nation’s leading trial lawyers by Lawdragon 500 and has been ranked for many years by Chambers and Best Lawyers in America for Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and White-Collar Criminal Defense. In 2026, he was named Best Lawyer in Chicago for Bet-the-Company Litigation by Best Lawyers in America. He is consistently recognized as one of the top 10 lawyers in Chicago.

During his 35-year tenure at the firm, Jeffrey has served as chairman of the firm, global head of the Trial Department and head of the White-Collar Criminal Defense Practice Group.

A frequent teacher on both law and leadership, Jeffrey has taught trial advocacy at Harvard Law School, served as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, and taught at the US Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute in Washington, DC. He also served as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where he taught leadership. In 2022, Jeffrey co-taught a course at Stanford Law School on legal developments emerging in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Prior to joining the firm, Jeffrey served in the US Attorney’s Office in Chicago as an Assistant US Attorney, concluding his tenure as deputy chief of the Criminal Receiving and Appellate Division. In that role, he tried numerous federal jury trials involving white-collar crime, with a particular focus on complex financial crime, fraud, public corruption and tax prosecutions. He also argued and supervised numerous cases before the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

From 1983 to 1984, he served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Robert F. Peckham of the US District Court in San Francisco.

In addition to his active legal practice, Jeffrey has served in leadership roles for a variety of nonprofit organizations. From 2018 to 2023, he served as a member of Stanford University’s Board of Trustees and currently serves as a director of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. From 2015 to 2026, he served as a director of ALAS and, from 2020 to 2022, served as chair of its board. He is an elected Fellow of the American Law Institute and a longtime member of the national executive committee of the American Jewish Committee, where he has also served as chair of the International Relations Commission and the Asia Pacific Institute.