T. Randolph Harris graduated from Princeton University in 1974 and from the New York University School of Law in 1977, from which he subsequently received a Master of Laws in taxation. He is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey. After serving an appellate clerkship and engaging in practice at other firms in the New York area, he joined McLaughlin & Stern as co-chair of the trusts and estates department in 2000. His practice relates primarily to estate planning, the administration of estates and trusts, and the resolution of controversies in the Surrogate’s Court.

Mr. Harris is an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University, where he teaches estate planning in the graduate tax law program. He has chaired various committees of the Tax Section and the Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section of the American Bar Association, and he is currently on the Supervisory Council of the latter section. He is a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and a fellow and Regent of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, where he is on the Executive Committee and is immediate past chair of its Committee on Fiduciary Income Taxes.

He is a member of the American Law Institute and the Estates, Gifts and Trusts Advisory Board of Tax Management, Inc., a former director of the New York City Estate Planning Council, and a member of the Channel 13 Professional Advisors Board, the Anti-Defamation League Planned Giving Advisory Board, the Rockefeller University Committee on Trust and Estate Gift Plans, and the Princeton University Planned Giving Advisory Committee.

He serves on the Surrogate's Court Advisory Committee of the New York State Office of Court Administration, and on the Executive Committee of the Taxation Section of the New York State Bar Association, where he also is co-chair of the Estate & Gift Tax Committee.

He regularly publishes and lectures nationally on various estate planning matters, and has been on the faculty of tax and estate planning institutes around the country. Mr. Harris serves as an officer and trustee of various charitable organizations, and has recently served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.