Ed McCoyd was born in Brooklyn, and lived there until his family moved to Glen Cove on Long Island. After graduating from Chaminade High School in 1961, he attended the University of Notre Dame and Fordham Law School. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1968 and joined Hughes Hubbard & Reed, a large Wall Street law firm, as an associate. In 1972 Ed left Hughes Hubbard and started a private practice on Long Island. His firm now has ten attorneys and is known as McCoyd, Parkas & Ronan. Its offices are located in Garden City, where Ed also resides. His firm’s practice is concentrated in the areas of estate planning, estate administration, and estate litigation, and he has lectured and published extensively on these subjects. Ed is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and has received recognition from a number of professional rating services, including Super Lawyers. Ed’s recently published novel, Simpson’s Will, tells the story of Tim O’Leary, a young attorney who accepts an unexpected job offer from an old-line Manhattan firm, and suddenly finds himself embroiled in a high-stakes probate contest. Struggling to keep his head above water as the case unfolds, Tim doggedly pursues leads as he attempts to solve the mysterious disappearance of the client’s Will, in a frantic effort to avert an outcome that could seriously damage the firm’s reputation. As the story progresses, Tim also has a series of memorable, and often humorous, encounters with people and situations reminiscent of life in New York in the late 1960s.