Jerome M. Hesch, Miami, Florida, serves as an income tax and estate planning consultant for lawyers and other tax planning professionals throughout the country. He is outside tax counsel to Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP in Mineola, NY, Dorot & Bensimon, PA in Aventura, FL, The Jeffrey M Verdon Law Group in Newport Beach California, and Oshins & Associates in Las Vegas Nevada.

He is the Director of the Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute, this year scheduled for October 13 and 14, 2022, on the Tax Management Advisory Board, a Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Council and the American College of Tax Council and is a member of the NAEPC Estate Planning Hall of Fame. He published numerous articles, Tax Management Portfolios, and co-authored a law school casebook on Federal Income Taxation, now in its fourth edition.

He 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 was with the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D.C. from 1970 to 1975, and for the next 20 years was a full-time law professor at the University of Miami School of Law and the Albany Law School, Union University. He continues to teach courses as an adjunct professor of law and has taught courses for Vanderbilt University Law School, University of Miami School of Law Graduate Program in Estate Planning, University of Buffalo School of Law, Florida International School of Law and On-Line LL.M. Programs for University of San Francisco Law School and Boston University School of Law. From 1982 through 1992 he was the Director of the Graduate Program in Estate Planning at the University of Miami.