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A Personal Approach To Resolving Your Estate Planning & Litigation Concerns
Dana Dwiggins

BRIAN K. STEADMAN

Partner

Contact Info:

844-249-0944

BIOGRAPHY

Brian Steadman is a member of the firm’s management committee and focuses his practice in the areas of tax planning, estate planning, business planning and asset protection. Brian has extensive experience in assisting clients with all areas of tax, estate, and charitable planning, including: wills, revocable living trusts, powers of attorney, special needs trusts, trust decanting, gift trusts for children and grandchildren, generation-skipping trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, grantor retained income trusts, private and supporting foundations, charitable remainder trusts and charitable lead trusts.

Brian has assisted clients in their business planning needs, including: advising clients with respect to limited liability companies, corporations, partnerships, mergers, acquisitions, buy-sell agreements and succession planning. In connection with assisting clients with their estate, gift and family business goals, he has assisted clients with respect to asset protection planning, including: the establishment and maintenance of Nevada Asset Protection Trusts (also known as Nevada Self-Settled Spendthrift Trusts), family limited partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations.

Additionally, Brian regularly represents beneficiaries and fiduciaries in contested matters and handles all aspects of probate and trust administration.


EDUCATION

  • Creighton University School of Law, Omaha, Nebraska
    • Juris Doctorate – 2007
    • Honors: cum laude
    • Major: Emphasis in Business Law
  • University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
    • Bachelor of Arts – 2003
    • Major: Political Science
    • Minor: Business

CLASSES/SEMINARS

  • Using Trusts in the Modern Wild West, STEP Conference, 2023
  • Grantor Trusts, Trusts 101 Seminar, National Business Institute, November 2020
  • Probate Process From Start to Finish Seminar, National Business Institute, December 2019
  • Part III: Tax Reporting and Post-Mortem Tax Matters, National Business Institute, October 2018
  • Probate Hands-On! Seminar, National Business Institute, May 2018
  • Probate Boot Camp Seminar, National Business Institute, December 2015
  • Top Estate Planning Techniques Seminar, National Business Institute, February 2013

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

  • Clark County Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • State Bar of Nevada, Probate and Trust Section

BAR ADMISSIONS

  • Nevada
  • U.S. District Court District of Nevada

PUBLISHED WORKS

  • Small Business Succession Opportunities, Nevada Business, November, 2014

 


PRACTICE AREAS

  • Estate & Tax Planning
  • Business Succession Planning
  • Trust & Estate Administration
  • Charitable and Foundation Planning and Operations
  • Asset Protection
  • Probate

HONORS

  • Best Lawyers in America, Litigation – Trusts and Estates (2023)
  • Super Lawyers, Mountain States (2018-2023)
  • Top Rank Attorneys, Nevada Business Magazine (2022-2023)
  • Legal Elite, Silver State’s Top Attorneys, Nevada Business Magazine (2015, 2018, 2020)
  • Martindale-Hubbell Peer-Reviewed Rating
  • Rated “Good” on Avvo