Jerome Hesch

FIU College of Law

Jerome M. Hesch, Miami, Florida, is one of the leading trust and estates attorneys in the United States. He serves as an income tax and estate planning consultant for lawyers and other tax planning professionals throughout the country. He is Special Tax Counsel to Oshins & Associates in Las Vegas Nevada, and Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, in Mineola, NY. He is the Director of the 42nd Annual Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute, scheduled for October 26 and 27, 2017 in South Bend, Indiana, on the Tax Management Advisory Board, a Fellow of American College of Trusts and Estates Council and the American College of Tax Council, has published numerous articles, Tax Management Portfolios, and co-authored a law school casebook on Federal Income Taxation, now in its fourth edition.
Jerry has presented papers for the University of Miami, Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, the University of Southern California Tax Institute, the Southern Federal Tax Conference, and the New York University Institute on Federal Taxation, among others. He participated in several bar association projects, including the Drafting Committee for the Revised Uniform Partnership Act. 
He received his BA and MBA degrees from the University of Michigan and a JD degree from the University of Buffalo Law School. He was with the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D.C. from 1970 to 1975, and was a full-time law professor from 1975 to 1994, teaching at the University of Miami School of Law and the Albany Law School, Union University. He is currently an adjunct professor of law, teaching courses at the Florida International University Law School, the On-Line LL.M. Program at the Boston University Law School and the Vanderbilt Law School.