Bio

Rebecca Hurst is a co-founder and the managing partner of Smith Hurst. She focuses her practice on planning the businesses, estates, family offices and charitable organizations of some of Arkansas’s highest net worth individuals and families. Since 2007 she has been an adjunct professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law where she teaches advanced classes in Federal Estate and Gift Tax and previously taught Nonprofit Organizations. Prior to founding Smith Hurst, PLC, Ms. Hurst practiced in the estate planning and tax-exempt organizations practice groups of the largest Arkansas based law firm. Before starting her legal career, Ms. Hurst worked as an accountant for Beverly Enterprises (now Golden Living) in Fort Smith, Arkansas, serving seventeen skilled nursing facilities with their Medicare, Medicaid and financial audit and reporting matters.