Amy Lara Margolin is an associate in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm's Chicago office. As a member of McDermott’s highly regarded Private Client practice group, Amy focuses her practice on all aspects of estate and wealth transfer planning. She advises clients on estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues, trust and estate administration, and charitable planning, as well as contested trust and tax matters. Amy has significant experience designing and administering complex estate plans for individuals and families, implementing leveraged wealth transfer techniques and providing counsel for the formation and operation of charitable foundations.
Amy is admitted to practice in Illinois and is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, Women’s Bar Association of Illinois and American Bar Association. She currently serves as a member of the YLS Estate Planning Committee of the Chicago Bar Association.
Amy received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, with honors, and her J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law, magna cum laude, where she was an associate editor of the University of Illinois Law Review.
Education
- University of Illinois College of Law, J.D. (magna cum laude), 2007
- Washington University, B.A. (with honors), 2004
