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Carol A. Harrington is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, resident in the Firm’s Chicago office, where she heads the Firm’s Private Client Department. She advises clients on a variety of matters, including estate, gift and generation-skipping tax issues, trust and estate administration, and contested trust and tax matters.
As a national authority on the federal generation-skipping tax, Carol has advised attorneys, tax professionals, executors, trustees and others nationwide on this issue. She is a co-author of a tax treatise, Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax (Harrington, Plaine & Zaritsky) and has published many articles on the federal generation-skipping tax. Carol is a frequent speaker for professional groups.
Carol is listed in the current edition of Naifeh, Smith, The Best Lawyers in America, for Trusts & Estates and was named an Illinois Super Lawyer in the estate planning & probate area by Law & Politics.
In 2006, Carol was one of only 10 U.S. lawyers ranked in the top tier by Chambers USA in the wealth management category; and of those 10, she is one of the two youngest. In the 2007 edition of Chambers USA, she was one of 17 lawyers in the United States ranked in the top tier for wealth management.
Carol is the past chair of the Generation-Skipping Tax: Regulations and Legislation Committee for the American Bar Association's Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, former member of its governing body, and a co-supervisor of the Tax Regulations and Legislation Committees. Carol is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, currently serving on the Estate and Gift Tax Committee, where she was a member of its Board of Regents (from 1999-2005). Carol is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Heckerling (Miami) Institute of Estate Planning.
Carol is chair of McDermott Will & Emery’s Charitable Foundation, a member of the board of trustees of the Illinois Chapter of the Nature Conservatory and a trustee of the ACTEC Foundation.
Carol is a member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association (past chair of Division I of the Trust Law Committee) and the Chicago Estate Planning Council.
Education:
University of Illinois College of Law, J.D. (magna cum laude(Order of the Coif)), 1977
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.S. (summa cum laude with University Honors (Bronze Table)), 1974. | 