Carol A. Harrington is senior counsel in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, in the Firm's Chicago office. She was the Global Head of the Firm's Private Client Practice Group from 2006-2017. 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. She is a co-author of the tax treatise, Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax (Harrington, Kwon, Plaine & Zaritsky), the author of "Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax," BNA Tax Management Series, 2008, and has published many articles on the federal generation-skipping tax and other transfer tax topics. Carol is a frequent speaker for professional groups.