History

Established  in 1976

In 1976, John W. Kozina came to Lac La Biche as a young lawyer. Encouraged by T.R. Maccagno and Judge Percy Marshall, he's still here. John W. Kozina established his law practice in Lac La Biche in 1976 in the very same building that his office occupies today.  As a history buff with a passion for art, the office is decorated in a variety of paintings, sculptures, and antiques including a narwhal horn captured off the north coast of Baffin  Island, a German Adler typewriter from the 19th century, and the Desparado sailboat silk screen poster art series.

John W. Kozina has practiced at the same location for over 37 years and has experience in: 

• The incorporation of companies, corporate and commercial law
• Residential home purchase and commercial property purchase,
• Divorce and separation,
• Last will and testaments, living wills, wills and estates, probates and administration trusts, enduring power of attorneys, personal directives,
• Defence of impaired  driving cases (D.U.I.),
• Assaults, spousal  assaults, 
• Immigration cases including but not limited to: applications for permanent residence card  and passport, citizenship, work permits for foreign workers, Labour Market Opinions (LMIA), Application for Permanent Residence on Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds, Visitor's Visa, we can assist persons in danger of arrest for overstaying their visa, removal orders, Spousal Inland Applications, Landed Immigrant Status, and Pre-Removal Risk Assessments.

​Career Achievements of John W. Kozina Personal Injury and Claim  Litigation

John W. Kozina helps people injured in car crashes to collect cash compensation. John W. Kozina changed the law in Vermont, USA, to allow his client to collect generous damages in the USA instead of the frugal cash damages awarded in the province of Quebec,    which has a no-fault government run auto insurance bureaucracy similar to Alberta Worker's  Compensation Board. Although the accident happened in Quebec, John W. Kozina hired attorneys in Vermont and went through two levels of Appeal Court to the highest court in Vermont. The highest court in Vermont allowed the Quebec accident to be litigated in Vermont. The case is in the reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont in Volume 166. The case is cited as Amiot v. Ames (166 Vermont  Reports 288)

Criminal Law

John W. Kozina has defended several  murder cases. He has also defended  against charges such as robbery, rape, sexual assault, theft, possession of stolen property, impaired driving (DUI), Sexual Assault, spousal assault, assault causing bodily harm, narcotics, drug charges, and controlled substance cases.

Family Law, Maintenance,  Divorce, and Custody of  Children

In 1985 John W. Kozina was involved in a contested court case resulting in a reported decision on subrogation.  Madame Justice J. Veit of the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench  ruled that the amount due pursuant to a child maintenance order to a mother are subrogated  to the government of Alberta if the mother is on Social Assistance.  The case is reported in the Alberta Reports of Family Law 43 R. F. L. (2d) Page  420.

Immigration  Law and Federal Court of  Canada

In 2012 John W. Kozina argued an Immigration case in the Federal Court of Canada. Later   he was successful in winning Landed Immigrant Status on Humanitarian and Compassionate grounds thus saving his client from deportation to   Brazil.

Immigration  Network Canada

John W. Kozina partners with Izabela Embalo and Immigration Network Canada on the most difficult and complicated  immigration problems.