Jackson M. Bruce Jr. is a shareholder of Dunwody White & Landon, P.A. and concentrates his practice in planning, administration and litigation involving trusts, wills and estates, and related taxation.  Based in the Naples office, he also serves clients in the firm's offices in Miami, Palm Beach and Hobe Sound.

Bruce has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America by Woodward/White, 10^th Edition, publishers of the biennial list of top lawyers, selected through peer review. A graduate of Harvard and Cambridge, he has the added distinction of being listed in Best Lawyers for every year of its first 20 years of publication.

He is a fellow and served as president of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). He served as chairman of the American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section and is also a member of the American Law Institute and the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. A past member of the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association (ABA), he also served as chairman of the National Conference of Lawyers and Corporate Fiduciaries.

He is a member of the Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Trusts and Estates Acts and is an  advisor to the Restatement of Property 3^rd, Donative Transfers. He is a member of the  International Academy of Estate and Trust Law and a past member of its executive council.  Bruce has lectured and written on probate, trust and related tax matters at American Bar  Association National Institutes, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel seminars, the  University of Miami Philip E. Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, Florida Bar Attorney- Trust Officer Liaison Conference, Southwestern Legal Foundation, USC Tax Institute, UCLA  Estate Planning Institute, Tulane Tax Institute and Georgetown Advance Planning Institute.  He  is a member of the Florida and Wisconsin bar associations.

 He has a law degree from Harvard Law School, a master’s degree in law from the Gonville & Caius College of Cambridge University, England, and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College.