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Individual Representation & Litigation
Disputes
Demutalizations, reorganizations, mergers
Civil Rights and Human Rights
Criminal Matters
Identity Theft
Copyright Protection
Intellectual Property
Real Estate/Wills/Trusts
State and Federal Government Accountability
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Individual Representation & Litigation
Adkins, Kelston & Zavez, P.C., represents individuals in a wide range of legal and litigation matters:
Disputes
Adkins, Kelston & Zavez, P.C., represents clients in a wide-range of legal disputes, including between or with:
- insurance companies involving disputes over coverage, dividends or other issues
- business partners
- students accused of wrongdoing by educational institutions
- tenants and landlords
- property owners and abutters in property line or environmental disputes
- professionals accused of ethics violations
- beneficiaries
- identity theft
CHALLENGING INSURANCE COMPANY DEMUTUALIZATIONS, REORGANIZATIONS, MERGERS
AKZ has developed recognized expertise in this multi-billion dollar issue by
leading a national effort to challenge dozens of unfair mutual insurance
company demutualizations (i.e., conversions from policyholder-owned mutual companies into stock companies) through class action and derivative litigation, administrative agency challenges, and public policy work, including by bringing media exposure to the issue. AKZ has also brought legal challenges to several problematic stock insurance company mergers on antitrust and other grounds, including that of Paul Revere and Provident, and of UNUM/Provident. [top]
Civil Rights and Human Rights
Adkins, Kelston & Zavez, P.C., works to defend and protect people’s civil and human rights:
- AKZ successfully litigated cases on behalf of people whose civil rights were violated, including by winning the release of several people wrongly convicted of crimes that AKZ proved they did not commit, and by obtaining money damages in excess of $950,000 for one client's wrongful incarceration.
- AKZ lawyers helped initiate a landmark lawsuit brought in 1997 by Burmese villagers against Unocal, a U.S.-based oil company. In 2005, after much litigation by other counsel, Unocal agreed to settle the claims in Doe v. Unocal and to compensate thevillagers who sued the company for complicity with the Burmese junta in destruction of their villages, forced labor and murder. Unocal and the government were engaged in a joint venture to build anatural gas pipeline from Burma to Thailand. [top]
Criminal Matters
AKZ attorney David Kelston has successfully represented dozens of persons accused of crimes by state and federal authorities, including on appeal. [top]
Identity Theft
AKZ represents clients who have suffered identity theft in order to stop the theft and help resolve the numerous credit, debt and other issues that arise from such theft. [top]
Copyright Protection
AKZ represents prominent photographers seeking to protect their copyrights in published photographs which they allege are being infringed by major publishing interests nationwide. [top]
Intellectual Property
AKZ represents clients in protecting their intellectual property, including copyrights. [top]
Real Estate/Wills/Trusts
AKZ represents clients in providing an array of legal services, such as drafting wills, trusts and performing real estate closings. [top]
State and Federal Government Accountability
AKZ has successfully litigated cases seeking governmental disclosure of public records (under the federal Freedom of Information Act and similar state laws), including on behalf of non-profit organizations. We have also successfully sued state and federal agencies for alleged violations of law on behalf of individuals and non-profit policy organizations. [top]
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