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 Practice Group. She 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.

As a national authority on the federal generation-skipping tax, Ms. Harrington 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, Kwon & Zaritsky) and has published many articles on the federal generation-skipping tax. She is also a frequent speaker for professional groups.

In 2011, Ms. Harrington was named as one of the three most influential lawyers by The National Law Journal for trusts and estates. She was named as the 2010 Chicago Trusts & Estates Lawyer of the Year by Naifeh, Smith, The Best Lawyers in America, and was named an Illinois Super Lawyer in the estate planning & probate area by Law & Politics. She has been ranked each year in the top-tier for wealth management by Chambers USA.

Ms. Harrington 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. She 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). In addition, Ms. Harington is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Heckerling (Miami) Institute of Estate Planning and a former trustee of the ACTEC Foundation.

Ms. Harrington 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.