Daniel J. "Dan" Wintz

Daniel J. "Dan" Wintz


Gross Welch Marks Clare PC LLO

Recognized since 2008

Omaha, Nebraska

Practice Areas

Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)

Elder Law

Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law

Litigation - ERISA

Litigation - Trusts and Estates

Trusts and Estates

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https://www.fraserstryker.com/Attorney.aspx?atid=1295

Dan Wintz joined Fraser Stryker in 2003 as a partner. He heads the Firm's Employee Benefits & ERISA Practice Group and is a senior member of the Firm's Estate Planning & Probate and Trust & Estate Administration Practice Groups. Dan brings over 35 years of employee benefit plan innovation and practical estate planning solutions to clients. He is the first and only Certified Estate Planning Law Specialist in Nebraska.* Dan is also an Adjunct Professor at Creighton University School College of Law where he teaches Estate Planning.

Through successive career developments, Mr. Wintz has developed a unique set of qualified and nonqualified plans skills and perspectives that enable him to counsel employers, fiduciaries, administrators, investment managers, actuaries, consultants, information systems managers, and participants about all types of retirement and deferred compensation plan design, qualification, funding, administration, compliance, communication, and taxation.

Dan also developed a complementary practice focused on estate planning with special emphasis on addressing the unique issues that arise in effective and tax-efficient planning for significant qualified plan, executive deferred compensation, and equity-based compensation accumulations. He also works with many C-level clients and their families to develop planned gifting and charitable foundations to facilitate making returns to the communities that have been generous to and supportive of them.

*Certified by Estate Law Specialist Board, Inc.

Location
  • 1500 Omaha Tower
    2120 South 72nd Street
    Omaha, NE 68124-2342
Education
  • University of Nebraska – Lincoln, J. D. , graduated 1975
  • University of Chicago, BA, graduated 1972
Bar Admissions
  • Arizona, State Bar of Arizona, 2009
  • Nebraska, Nebraska State Bar Association
  • Iowa, The Iowa State Bar Association
Affiliations
  • Creighton University, School of Law - Adjunct Professor
  • Nebraska Partnership for Philanthropic Planning - Member
  • Omaha Estate Planning Council - Member
  • Nebraska ERISA Study Group - Member
  • Pension Council of the Midlands - Member

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2024 - Elder Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2024 - Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2022 - Elder Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2021 - Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2020 - Elder Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2017 - Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2015 - Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Elder Law, Omaha (2024)
  • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Omaha (2024)
  • Elder Law, Omaha (2022)
  • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Omaha (2021)
  • Elder Law, Omaha (2020)
  • Trusts and Estates, Omaha (2017)
  • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Omaha (2015)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
  • Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
  • Elder Law
  • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
  • Litigation - ERISA
  • Litigation - Trusts and Estates
  • Trusts and Estates
Special Focus:
  • ERISA
  • ESOPS
  • Executive Compensation
  • Fiduciary Responsibility
  • Government Plans
  • Litigation
  • Pension, Health and Welfare
  • Qualified Plans
  • Trusts and Estates
Awards:
  • The Best Lawyers in America (Employee Benefits Law)
  • 2011 Community Sower Award Recipient, Nebraska Partnership for Philanthropic Planning
  • Certified Estate Planning Specialist
  • American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

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