Anthony DeLuca is a partner at Smith Pauley. He provides practical and approachable estate planning, post-death estate and trust administration, and business succession planning services by helping clients understand and navigate technically complex and inherently personal subject matter to create and implement comprehensive estate plans designed to meet targeted objectives.

Anthony’s practice focuses extensively on holistic estate planning services ranging from the design and implementation of traditional estate plans (e.g. wills, trusts, powers of attorney and advanced directives) to more complex strategies involving wealth transfer and transfer tax minimization. At every step, Anthony focuses on learning and understanding his clients’ unique objectives to deliver estate plans that work.

He also provides his clients with post-death estate and trust administration services and counsels trustees and personal representatives on a variety of matters including trust administration, probate proceedings, preparation of federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax returns, Nebraska inheritance tax returns, post-death tax planning involving estate, income, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes, and general fiduciary compliance.

Additionally, Anthony devotes a portion of his practice to business succession planning, with services ranging from the design and implementation of tailored buy-sell and succession planning agreements to proactive pre-liquidity event planning.

Anthony was selected as a Great Plains “Rising Star” by Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers, 2017-2022, and recognized by Best Lawyers “Ones to Watch” in 2021 and 2022.

Education

  • Loyola University Chicago, B.A. (2008)

  • Creighton University School of Law, J.D. (2011)

Bar Admissions

  • State of Nebraska

  • State of Missouri

  • State of Montana (Inactive)

Professional Affiliations

  • Nebraska State Bar Association

  • Omaha Estate Planning Council

Honors and Recognition

  • Super Lawyers - Great Plains “Rising Star” (2017-2022)

  • Best Lawyers in America - “Ones to Watch” (2021, 2022, 2024)