Jerome M. Hesch

Counsel

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Business & Real Estate Taxation, Private Wealth & Taxation, Tax Exempt Organizations, Trusts & Estates

Jerome M. Hesch

Counsel

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Business & Real Estate Taxation, Private Wealth & Taxation, Tax Exempt Organizations, Trusts & Estates

Bio

Jerome M. Hesch is Counsel to the firm’s Business & Real Estate Taxation, Trusts & Estates, Tax Exempt Organizations and Private Wealth & Taxation Practice Groups. Prior to joining the firm, Jerry served as an income tax and estate planning consultant for lawyers and other tax planning professionals throughout the country. Jerry was a consultant for Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP, Dorot & Bensimon PL, Jeffrey M. Verdon Law Group and Oshins & Associates LLC.

Jerry is the Director of the Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute and is on the Tax Management Advisory Board. Jerry is a Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Council and the American College of Tax Council. He is also a member of the NAEPC Estate Planning Hall of Fame. He has published numerous articles, Tax Management Portfolios, and co-authored a law school casebook on federal income taxation, now in its fourth edition.

Jerry 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 has 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 (1970-1975) and was a full-time law professor at the University of Miami School of Law and the Albany Law School of Union University for twenty years. He continues to teach courses as an adjunct law professor 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, On-Line LL.M. Programs for University of San Francisco Law School and Boston University School of Law. In addition, he was the Director of the Graduate Program in Estate Planning at the University of Miami from 1982-1992.

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Upcoming Events

Apr
25
2024
April 25, 2024 @ 10:00am
Jerome M. Hesch to Speak at 2024 Kettering Health Foundation Trust, Tax and Planning Strategies Seminar
Jerome M. Hesch, Counsel to the firm’s Business & Real Estate Taxation, Trusts & Estates, Tax Exempt Organiza...
Jun
17
2024
June 17, 2024 @ 8:00am
Meltzer Lippe’s 10th Annual Private Wealth & Taxation Institute
Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP and Maurice A. Deane School of Law, Hofstra University invite you to ...

Past Events

Mar
8
2024
March 8, 2024 @ 12:00pm
Stephen M. Breitstone and Jerome M. Hesch to Speak at March ACTEC Meeting
Meltzer Lippe Attorneys and ACTEC Fellows Stephen M. Breitstone and Jerome M. Hesch will speak on "The Impact of Real...
Feb
16
2024
February 16, 2024 @ 12:00pm
Jerome M. Hesch to Speak at NYU Law Graduate Tax Program on Communicating Estate Planning Proposals Using Financial Modeling
Jerome M. Hesch, Counsel to the firm’s Business & Real Estate Taxation, Trusts & Estates, Tax Exempt Organiza...
Nov
2
2023
November 2, 2023 @ 4:30pm
Stephen M. Breitstone and Jerome M. Hesch to Speak at 58th Annual Southern Federal Tax Institute
Meltzer Lippe Attorneys Stephen M. Breitstone and Jerome M. Hesch will speak on “Income Tax and Estate Tax Planning f...
Oct
26
2023
October 26, 2023 @ 1:30pm
Stephen M. Breitstone and Jerome M. Hesch to Speak at NYU 82nd Institute on Federal Taxation
Stephen M. Breitstone and Jerome M. Hesch will be speaking at the NYU 82nd Institute on Federal Taxation Conference o...
Oct
17
2023
October 17, 2023 @ 3:15pm
Stephen M. Breitstone and Jerome M. Hesch to Speak at 2023 Delaware Trust Conference
Meltzer Lippe Attorneys Stephen M. Breitstone and Jerome M. Hesch will co-present “Increasing the Income Tax and Esta...

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