Carol Matas is a bankruptcy lawyer and a bestselling author, whose first book, "The Death of Trust: The Patient's Guide to Estate Planning," was named by The New York Times as one of the Best Books of the Year. With the publication of her second book, "Trust: The Fable of Good Intentions," published by HarperCollins in 2006, she became the only person to have won both the National Law Journal's Author of the Year and Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Author of the Year awards. Her third book, "Trust: A Memoir" (HarperCollins), was published in 2008 and was named by The New York Times as one of the Best Books of 2008. Her latest book, "Practical Trust: A Little Book That Can Change Your Life," was published by HarperCollins in 2011 and has been praised as an instant classic by such authors as Richard Stengel
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Carol serves as a trustee on the boards of the Authors Guild, Women Lawyers for Public Policy, and Author Education Foundation. She is also a trustee on the board of trustees for The William J. Clinton Foundation and serves as an advisor to Centerlink Foundation for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University.