Carlyn McCaffrey is a partner and co-head of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP's Trusts & Estates department and an adjunct professor of law at New York University School of Law. She received her LL.B. and her LL.M. from the New York University of Law.

Mrs. McCaffrey is a fellow and a past president of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel, a fellow and regent of the American College of Tax Counsel and a member and past vice president of the International Academy of Trust & Estate Counsel. In addition, Mrs. McCaffrey is a former member of the Council of the Real Property Probate and Trust Section of the American Bar Association, the former chair of the Section's Generation Skipping Transfer Tax Committee, a member of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association and the co-chair of the Section's Estates and Trust Committees, a member of the Advisory Board of Tax Analysts, a member of the Advisory Committee of the University of Miami's Philip E. Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, a member of the New York Archdiocese Planned Gifts Bequests Committee, a member and the secretary of the Board of Directors of the Catholic Communal Fund, a member of the Board of Trustees of Blythedale Children's Hospital, a member of the Board of Directors of the Breast Cancer Research Fund, the chair of the Central Park Professional Advisory Committee, a member of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Professional Advisory Council, a member of the The Museum of Modern Art's Planned Giving Advisory Committee, and a member of the Professional Advisors Council Committee of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

Mrs. McCaffrey frequently lectures on subjects relating to tax law, trusts and estates, foreign trusts and matrimonial law. She also writes extensively on these topics and is the co-author of Structuring the Tax Consequences of Marriage and Divorce. In the 2006 and 2007 Chambers USA Directories, Mrs. McCaffrey was listed in the national category of Wealth Management as a Star Performer. In 2006, she was also distinguished as one of the top 10 attorneys in New York City.