MIAMI – The law firm of Carlton Fields is pleased to announce that attorney Jerome M. Hesch recently joined the firm in the Corporate, Securities & Tax Practice Group. He practices in the firm’s Miami office.

Hesch has extensive experience as a tax and estate planning consultant. His legal experience also includes the use of captive insurance companies, financial derivatives, and energy tax credits. Hesch is a member of ACTEC and has published extensively, including several Tax Management Portfolios and co-authored a law school casebook on Federal Income Taxation, now in its fourth edition. He has appeared before groups such as the University of Miami Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, the University of Southern California Tax Institute, the AICPA, and the New York University Institute on Federal Taxation. In addition, Hesch serves as the Director of the Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute. Hesch is an active member of the American Bar Association as well as Florida and New York Bar Associations. He has participated in several bar association projects, including the Drafting Committee for the Florida Revised Uniform Partnership Act and prepared the ABA’s comments on the IRS’s proposed private annuity regulations.

In addition to practicing law at Carlton Fields, Hesch is an adjunct professor of law at the Florida International University, St. Thomas University, and the University of Miami law schools and teaches a course as part of the ABA’s annual, week-long Skills Training for Estate Planners program.

Previously, Hesch was with the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D.C. and was a full-time law professor, teaching at the University of Miami School of Law and the Albany Law School, Union University. He received his J.D. from the University of Buffalo Law School and both his B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.