Edward A. Reilly was born and raised in New York City. He was educated at Princeton University where he majored in biochemistry and then attended Duke Law School where he graduated with a Juris Doctor degree.

After active service as a Line Officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve, he returned to the Duke Law faculty as Assistant Dean of the Law School. He then returned to New York City and took a position as an associate and later became a partner in the Wall Street firm of Shearman & Sterling, LLP.

While there, Mr. Reilly specialized in matters involving Individual Clients, he also spent approximately a year in each of the Tax Group and a Corporate Group. After sixteen years at Shearman & Sterling and a brief adventure in North Carolina, Mr. Reilly joined Morris & McVeigh and became a partner of that firm.

He continued to practice in the Trust and Estate field (including Tax and Litigation) while at Morris and McVeigh. After sixteen years at Morris & McVeigh, Mr. Reilly left for private practice in Connecticut. He joined Manice, Budd & Baggett in 2023.

Mr. Reilly is admitted to practice in New York, North Carolina, Florida and Connecticut. He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) in 1986.

In 1992 he was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of the Republic of France and in 2015 was appointed an Officer of that organization.

He has represented many individuals and well-known families in the United States and abroad, as well as U.S. and foreign corporate clients. He has also represented many charitable organizations both large and small and both private and public.

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