Daniel Wintz

Dan's practice focuses on estate planning and estate and trust administration. Dan, who has previously been a partner in several of Omaha’s largest law firms, brings a unique knowledge about lifetime and death planning for IRA, retirement plan, deferred compensation and equity-based compensation plans to bear for clients and their families.

He also brings extensive practical knowledge and experience to bear in advising fiduciaries in performance of their duties in administration of trusts, estates, and retirement plans. His farm background serves him well as a trusted adviser to farm families on farm transition planning, taking care of the surviving spouse, and providing for on- and off-farm heirs.

Dan is Nebraska’s first and currently only Certified Estate Planning Law Specialist. He is also the 2017 Omaha Lawyer of the Year for Trusts and Estates and 2020 and 2023 Lawyer of the Year for Elder Law. Dan is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), is the Nebraska ACTEC State Chairperson, and has been further elected to participate in ACTEC’s exclusive Fiduciary Litigation Section, the Retirement Plans in Estate Planning Section, and the Fiduciary Litigation Taskforce. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Trusts and Estates, Elder Law, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law and Litigation – ERISA. Dan has been voted by his peers as a Super Lawyer in the practice areas of Estate Planning & Probate and is Peer Rated: AV- Preeminent Peer Rated (Martindale-Hubbell). He has been an Adjunct Professor in Creighton University College of Law where he taught Estate Planning.

Dan has authored or co-authored numerous articles on estate planning including Chapter 18, "Creation and Administration of Trusts" of the Nebraska State Bar Association's Probate Practice Manual and is a frequent speaker on estate planning topics including: the Nebraska Bar State Association’s Continuing Legal Education program on Administering Trusts & Medicaid for Estate Planners in 2018, and the Association’s. Estate Planning and Probate Seminar, "Changes in Attitudes Changes in Latitudes, Drafting Considerations Under the Title 4 of the Uniform Trust Code;" and the Nebraska ARC, "Special Needs Trusts."

In 2019, the Nebraska State Bar Association bestowed the 2019 George H. Turner Award on Dan. The George H. Turner award originated in 1964 and was established to recognize a member of the Bar demonstrating unusual effort in furthering public understanding of the legal system, the administration of justice, and confidence in the legal profession.

He received the 2011 Community Sower Award from the Nebraska Partnership for Philanthropic Planning in recognition of his work with clients in aiding them in fulfilling their charitable planning objectives. Dan has been an elected member of the Nebraska State Bar Association House of Delegates and is a member of the Association’s Rural Practice Initiative to improve the delivery of legal services in rural Nebraska.