Estate Planning | Estate & Trust Administration | Business Succession Planning

adeluca@smithpauley.com | (402) 501-8116

Anthony DeLuca is a co-founder and partner at Smith Pauley and chair of the Firm’s trusts and estates practice group. Over the course of his nearly 15-year legal career, Anthony has been fortunate to work with some of the region’s most successful entrepreneurs, founders, executives and families. 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 implement estate, wealth transfer and business succession 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 federal transfer tax minimization. At every step, Anthony focuses on learning and understanding his clients’ unique objectives to deliver 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, working alongside the firm’s mergers and acquisitions team.

Anthony was selected as a Great Plains “Rising Star” by Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers, 2017-2025, and recognized by Best Lawyers “Ones to Watch” in 2021-2024.

Practice Areas

• Estate Planning

• Estate & Trust Administration

• Business Succession Planning

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” (2017-2025)

• Best Lawyers in America - “Ones to Watch” (2021, 2022, 2023, & 2024)