CARLYN S. MCCAFFREY

McDermott Will & Emery | 340 Madison Avenue  |  New York, NY 10173  

Carlyn S. McCaffrey is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is co-head of the private client practice in the Firm’s New York office.  She focuses her practice on tax and estate planning.

Carlyn 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”

Carlyn is a fellow and a past president of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel, a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, a member of the International Academy of Trust & Estate Counsel and a member of the Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Trust and Estate Act of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform Laws, a member of the Advisory Committee of the University of Miami’s Phillip Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, and a member of the Adjunct faculty of the University of Miami Law School. 

Education
George Washington, Bachelor of Arts, 1963
New York University School of Law, Bachelor of Laws, 1967
New York University School of Law, Master of Laws, 1974

Carlyn is admitted to practice in New York and before the U.S. Tax Court.