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Mary Kruit McWilliams is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm's Chicago office. Mary is a member of the Private Client Department.
Mary counsels high net worth individuals, business owners, executives and multi-generational families in all areas of wealth transfer and estate planning. She has extensive experience in designing and implementing leveraged wealth transfer techniques, charitable gifts of all forms and sophisticated estate plans. Mary's practice also includes representing executors and fiduciaries in the administration of decedent's estates. In addition, Mary represents private foundations and public charities in all aspects of their formation and operation.
Prior to joining the Firm, Mary spent several years at a global law firm in Chicago representing corporations involved in complex income tax disputes with the Internal Revenue Service, including several cases in front of the United States Tax Court.
Mary is co-author of "Defending the Fiduciary," a chapter in the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education 2006 handbook, Estate, Trust and Guardianship Litigation, regarding litigation involving estates, trusts and guardianships. In law school, Mary was a member of the Loyola University Law Journal.
For many years, Mary has been serving as a director of Chicago Hope, Inc., a public charity in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago serving the poor through various mercy ministries.
Mary is admitted to the Illinois bar and is admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court and the Northern District of Illinois. She is also a member of the Chicago Estate Planning Council.
Education:
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, J.D., 1995
Trinity College, B.A. (cum laude), 1989 | 