Full Name
Craig Hersch
Job Title
National Practice Development Expert
Company
The Freedom Practice
Speaker Bio

Craig is a Florida Bar Board Certified Wills, Trusts & Estates attorney who holds his Florida CPA license. A partner at Sheppard, Brett, Stewart, Hersch, Kinsey & Hill, Craig has created several trademarked processes tied to his estate planning and administration practice, including The Family Estate & Legacy Program ®  and The Estate Settlement Program ® .

Craig has authored six books for clients:

  • The Florida Residency & Estate Planning Guide
  • Selecting Your Trustee
  • Common Cents Estate Planning
  • Legal Matters When a Loved One Dies
  • Asset Alignment and Your Estate Plan
  • Common Cents Estate Planning II

In addition to practicing law, Craig also writes. His work has appeared in several professional journals, including The Practical Tax Lawyer, Trusts & Estates Magazine, and The Florida Bar Journal. He also writes a weekly estate planning column that is published in Sanibel’s Island Sun newspaper and on his firm’s blog here.

A multiple graduate of the University of Florida with accounting and law degrees, Craig has provided his expertise as a continuing education lecturer for The Florida Bar and the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Craig holds 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 has been named to the Super Lawyers list every year since 2009, a highly-esteemed recognition given to no more than five percent of attorneys in Florida.

Craig Hersch