Jerome Hesch

Biography

Jerome M. Hesch is a member of Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP in their Boca Raton, 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, scheduled for November 5-7, 2025, on the Bloomberg Tax Advisory Board, and a Fellow of both the American College of Trusts and Estates Council and the American College of Tax Council. He has published numerous articles, several Tax Management Portfolios on Partnership Tax with Elliott Manning, and co-authored a law school casebook on Federal Income Taxation, now in its fifth edition. He is a member of the NAEPC Estate Planning Hall of Fame and received the Lenard Silverstein Lifetime Achievement Award from Bloomberg Tax.

Over the years he presented papers on tax and estate planning topics for the University of Miami Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, the University of Southern California Tax Institute, the Southern Federal Tax Conference, the AICPA, 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 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 for many years, teaching a wide variety of courses in estate planning, income taxation and accounting for lawyers at the University of Miami School of Law and the Albany Law School, Union University. From 1982 to 1992 he was the director of the Graduate Program in Estate Planning at the University of Miami School of Law. He still teaches as an adjunct professor of law, having taught courses in the past at the Vanderbilt University Law School, Florida International University Law School, the University of Miami School of Law Graduate Program in Estate Planning, Nova University School of Law and the On-Line LL.M. Programs for the University of San Francisco Law School and the Boston University School of Law.