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AI: Embracing the New Frontier in Your PracticeAI: Embracing the New Frontier in Your Practice

Craig R. Hersch provides practitioners with a foundation for understanding artificial intelligence.

Craig R. Hersch

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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About the Author

Craig R. Hersch

https://estateprograms.com/

Craig R. Hersch is the creator of The Freedom Practice™, The Family Estate & Legacy Program™ estate planning practice system and The Estate Settlement Program™ probate and trust administration practice system. He developed these practice systems in response to the quickly changing and challenging legal marketplace. He authored four books, Common Cents Estate Planning, Legal Matters When a Loved One Dies, The Florida Residency & Estate Planning Guide and Selecting Your Successor Trustee. These books are all used in his practice systems.

Craig is a Florida Bar Board Certified Wills, Trusts & Estates Attorney, practicing since 1989. He is also licensed as a Florida CPA, and is a founding shareholder and director of a private state-chartered trust company. His varied background in law, accounting, tax and finance along with his participation in Dan Sullivan’s Strategic Coach program since 2005 provides him unique insights and capabilities necessary to multiply his practice.

To that end, Trusts & Estates magazine tapped Craig a “Practice Development Xpert” where he writes a column under its wealthmanagement.com website. He hosts three podcast series geared to estate planning professionals, clients and trust administrators. Craig writes a weekly estate-planning column for a local newspaper, and presents as a featured lecturer at continuing education programs sponsored by The Florida Bar, the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the National Business Institute.

Craig is married to wife Patti and they have raised three daughters. In his spare time Craig enjoys adventure travel, training for and competing in triathlons, including Ironman distance races, boating the southwest Florida waterways and spending quality time with his family.