Meet our Attorneys
Attorneys:
Blake B. Johnson, Esq.
Managing Partner
State Bar Admissions
Arizona
Nevada
Utah
Education
BYU BS in Business Management
Paul M. Hebert Law School at LSU
Professional Associations
SNEPC-Southern Nevada Estate Planning Council Member
BYUMS- Las Vegas BYU Management Society Board Member
GPC-Gift Planning Council Member
Pro Bono Activities
Boy Scouts of America- Past Scout Leader
BYUMS Las Vegas Chapter Board Member
Languages
English
Blake has known most of his life that he would be working in the estate planning and business realm and based his schooling and work life accordingly. As an undergrad at BYU in the Marriott School of Management he studied Business Management and Finance before attending law school where he learned how to handle the financial side of trusts, businesses and estate plans. He then went on to graduate from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University with his JD and a graduate degree in comparative law where although you don’t have a major in law school Blake’s was Trusts and estate planning.
Blake grew up with his father being an estate planning attorney and was always around the office and saw the results of proper planning through trusts, buy sell agreements and succession planning and the poor results from those that didn’t plan. He has also started multiple businesses outside of his trust and estates practice and sold one business, so he understands the needs of clients and the many different situations they may face.
Blake focuses primarily in the areas of estate planning, trusts, probate, business formation and business succession planning. He is the current managing partner at Trusted Estate Planning Attorneys and hopes to grow the practice to reach more people and help everyone understand the importance of a trust and estate planning and then help them implement their trust and estate plan.
He is currently a member of the Southern Nevada Estate Planning Council, a member of the National Planned Giving Council, and a Board Member of the BYU Management Society Las Vegas Chapter.
He is the author of “You Can’t Take It With You, The Top 15 Estate Planning Questions Answered in Plain English” (get a copy here) and is a regular guest lecturer at colleges such as UNLV and BYU.
He has been married for 8 years and enjoys spending time with his wife and their two boys. He has a passion for golf, travel, entrepreneurship, and working out.
Kurt A. Johnson, Esq.
Of Counsel
State Bar Admissions
Idaho
Nevada
Utah
Education
BYU BS in Accounting
J. Reuben Clark Law School at BYU
Professional Associations
SUEPC-Southern Utah Estate Planning Council Member
BYUMS- Southern Utah BYU Management Society Member
GPC-Gift Planning Council Member
Pro Bono Activities
Boy Scouts of America- Past Scout Leader
Intermountain Health Care Foundation Board Member
Rotary Member
Languages
English
French
Kurt is the founder of the Law Offices of Kurt A. Johnson, Esq. P.C. which has been renamed Trusted Estate Planning Attorneys. He has been an estate planning and trust attorney for nearly 30 years. He practices primarily in the areas of Estate Planning, Trusts, Estate Tax Planning and Business Law. He is a CPA and also still files many tax returns each year.
Kurt started his estate planning law firm in order to give his estate planning, trust and business clients the personal one on one touch that he felt they deserved. He has been through many changes in the estate planning, trust and business laws and knows what works and what doesn’t. He loves working with all trust, will and business clients to help them accomplish their personal estate plan.
Kurt is an avid golf and BYU fan spending his free time trying to combine the two loves into one. He loves being involved in the community especially organizing golf tournaments to help charities.
Adriana Pereyra Of Counsel
Adriana Pereyra has lived in Las Vegas for almost 20 years. She studied International Business Administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, before receiving her Juris Doctor from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She also attended a European Law Master’s Program at the University of Paris XII Val DeMarne, and studied French at La Sorbonne, both in Paris, France. A native of Mexico, Adriana is fluent in English, Spanish and French. Adriana has been a business owner, has extensive experience in litigation and most recently is specializing in immigration and small business consulting. Adriana’s personal motto is to treat every case with integrity and with the client’s best interest in mind by evaluating the impact of each legal decision on the client’s life as a whole.
Languages
– English
– Spanish
Luke B. Smith, Esq.
Luke is a native and proud Nevadan who focuses his practice on estate planning, probate, and taxation. In law school, while clerking for the Honorable Wesley Yamashita in Probate Court, Luke saw firsthand what happens when an individual’s estate plan didn’t go according to plan, or worse, when there was no plan. Seeing the impact and benefit of proper estate planning, Luke resolved to provide his clients with the very best experience. So, after graduating cum laude from UNLV’s Boyd School of Law, he pursued his LL.M. in taxation from the University of Alabama (Roll Tide!). He understands as the saying goes, “it’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep.” Luke has been married for five years and enjoys spending time with his wife and their two sons. He helps his boys read Calvin and Hobbes and slay
State Bar Admissions:
Nevada
Education:
LL.M., 2021, University of Alabama School of Law
J.D., 2019, cum laude, University of Nevada Las Veg as, William S. Boyd School of Law
B.A., 2013, Brigham Young University
Languages
– English
– Spanish
Staff:
Tamara Bronk