August 23, 2024
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As I sit down to write this inaugural column for Trusts & Estates, it’s important to introduce myself. I’m Craig Hersch, a 60-year-old senior shareholder of the Sheppard Law Firm, a 100-year-old boutique office in Fort Myers, Fla. We specialize in wills, trusts and estates, serving a wealthy and quite demanding clientele. While my expertise is firmly rooted in the legal realm, I must admit that I’m not a technology expert.
However, like many of my peers, I’m intrigued by the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize how we practice estate-planning law. AI is the simulation of human intelligence in machines designed to think, learn and solve problems. Some might think that at my age, I’m too old to be dabbling in AI—as I’...
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