Carlyn S. McCaffrey, Partner, Chair, Estate Planning Practice Group of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP to Speak at KC’s Estate Planning Explored in 2010: The New Model

New York, NY, August 29, 2010 --(PR.com)-- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that Carlyn S. McCaffrey, Partner, Chair, Estate Planning Practice Group of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP will speak at the Knowledge Congress’ webcast entitled Estate Planning Explored in 2010: The New Model. This event is scheduled for September 07, 2010 at 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET.

For further details about this event, please visit:
http://www.knowledgecongress.org/event_2010_Estate_Model.html

Carlyn S. McCaffrey

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.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Weil, Gotshal & Manges is an international law firm of over 1,300 lawyers, including approximately 300 partners. Weil, Gotshal is headquartered in New York, with offices in Beijing, Boston, Budapest, Dallas, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Miami, Munich, Paris, Prague, Providence, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Warsaw, Washington, D.C. and Wilmington.

For more information about Carlyn McCaffrey and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, please visit: http://www.weil.com/

Event Synopsis:

The expiration of many Bush-Era tax cuts at the end of 2010 will force many estate planners to rethink their strategies for their clients. The Knowledge Group has assembled a panel of key experts in estate planning to help walk its audience through the fundamentals of estate planning in the 2010 paradigm.

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