Mary Kruit McWilliams is a partner in the Wealth & Succession Planning practice of Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C.
Mary advises professionals, entrepreneurs, individuals and families regarding their wealth transfer planning, business succession and charitable giving. Mary also represents individual and corporate fiduciaries in connection with the administration of trusts and decedents' estates.
Mary builds authentic and collaborative relationships with her clients, their families and their advisors to provide highly personalized, lifetime and testamentary wealth transfer and succession plans that align closely with her client's goals and governing values. Clients have commented that Mary's engaging nature and ability to connect with people make discussing the sensitive issues inherent in estate planning a positive experience. The result is a peace of mind that comes from working with a trusted advisor who understands you and helps you implement the plans and tools that will best protect and sustain what is most important to you.
Having joined the firm after eleven successful years representing high net worth clients at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, one of the largest estate planning practices in the United States, Mary has extensive experience in designing and implementing simple to highly technical and sophisticated wealth transfer techniques, business succession plans and charitable gifts of all forms.
For many years, Mary has been serving as a director of Chicago Hope, Inc., a public charity in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago which serves the poor through various mercy ministries.
Mary graduated from Trinity College (now known as Trinity International University) with a B.A., cum laude, in 1989 and earned her Juris Doctorate from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1995. In law school, Mary was a member of the Loyola University Law Journal.
Mary is a member of the Illinois bar and is admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court and the Northern District of Illinois. She is a member of the Christian Legal Society and the Chicago Estate Planning Council.
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