Jerome M. Hesch serves as a tax and estate planning consultant for lawyers and estate planning professionals throughout the country. He is Of Counsel to Carlton Fields P.A. in its Miami, Florida office and is Special Tax Counsel to Oshins & Associates in Las Vegas Nevada. He is the Director of the Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute, on the Tax Management Advisory Board, a Fellow of ACTEC, has published numerous articles, Tax Management Portfolios, and co-authored a law school casebook on Federal Income Taxation, now in its fourth edition.

He 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.

Mr. Hesch participated in several bar association projects, including the Drafting Committee for the Florida Revised Uniform Partnership Act and preparing the ABA's comments on the IRS's proposed private annuity regulations.

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 and the Graduate Program in Estate Planning at the University of Miami.