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Carol A Harrington

Carol A Harrington

High Net Worth 2025

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Ranked in 2 practice areas

About

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High Net Worth

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Carol A. Harrington 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. Carol is the former global head of McDermott’s Private Client Practice.

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Chambers High Net Worth

Private Wealth Law: Central Region - USA - Nationwide

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Individual Editorial

Carol Harrington is based in Chicago and advises ultra-high net worth clients on trusts and estates matters.

Private Wealth Law - Illinois

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Individual Editorial

Carol Harrington is nationally renowned for her work in private wealth. Harrington is a well-known expert on complex trusts and tax structuring work for ultra-wealthy clients.

Strengths

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  • Carol Harrington is absolutely phenomenal. She is a go-to. She is sophisticated and she is kind.

    Private Wealth Law: Central RegionChambers High Net Worth
  • Carol is one of the most technically gifted estate planning attorneys I have ever met.

    Private Wealth Law: Central RegionChambers High Net Worth
  • Carol Harrington is great: she's actually incredible.

    Private Wealth LawChambers High Net Worth
  • Carol Harrington is absolutely phenomenal. She is a go-to, sophisticated and kind.

    Private Wealth LawChambers High Net Worth
  • I really like Carol, she's very rational and very practical.

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  • Carol Harrington is dynamite. She's amazing.

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