Carlyn McCaffrey is a partner and chair of Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Estate Planning practice group and an adjunct professor of law at New York University School of Law and the Miami Law School.
Ms. McCaffrey 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. In addition, she is a past 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 former co-chair of the Section's Estates and Trusts Committees, a member of the Advisory Committee of the University of Miami’s Philip E. Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, a member and the secretary of the Board of Directors of the Catholic Communal Fund, 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 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.
Ms. 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.