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Craig R. Hersch is a partner in the law firm of Sheppard, Brett, Stewart, Kinney & Hill, P.A. of Fort Myers, Florida, founded in 1924. He is a Florida Bar Board Certified Wills, Trusts & Estates attorney who also holds his license as a Florida CPA, earning his Bachelor of Science in Accounting (1986) and Juris Doctorate degrees (1989) from the University of Florida.

Not only does Mr. Hersch have broad legal and tax credentials, but he has extensive knowledge of how financial matters fit into estate planning from his role as a founding shareholder and director of a community trust company. From this unique blend of experience, Hersch created “The Family Estate & Legacy Solution®”, which now serves as his firm’s cornerstone client discovery and planning process. This process serves to transform a client’s legal, tax and financial concerns into a coordinated, understandable and comprehensive estate plan.

For 10 years, he has authored a popular estate planning column entitled, “Will Power” that is published weekly in the Sanibel Island Sun and delivered to homes and businesses on Sanibel and Captiva Islands in Southwest Florida. The articles can also be found on his law firm’s website blog.

Mr. Hersch is a frequent lecturer at continuing education seminars for attorneys and accountants and has authored several articles appearing in a variety of professional journals. Hundreds of his clients typically attend his private educational workshops where he lectures on timely estate planning topics. All workshops are professionally videotaped, catalogued by subject matter, and offered in DVD form free of charge upon request or by downloading them off his firm’s website. More than 600 families currently enrolled in the firm’s Family Estate & Legacy® maintenance program also have exclusive access to Mr. Hersch’s insight and wisdom, including ongoing document updates necessitated by legal and tax law changes. Mr. Hersch enjoys an AV Martindale Hubbell rating, the highest attainable by the independent national attorney rating service, has been selected as a Worth 100 Top Attorney, and named a Super Lawyer Top US Lawyer for five consecutive years by Thompson Reuters.