Linda Akchin is of counsel in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller. She joined the firm in 1986 and practices in the litigation group. Linda represents clients in general and commercial litigation, state and local sales and use tax litigation and controversy, and pipeline expropriation.
Representative Experience
- Successfully represented industrial client in state income tax litigation relating to the tax treatment of the proceeds of a sale of a major industrial facility within Louisiana.
- Successfully represented commercial client in state income tax litigation relating to the inventory tax credit.
- Representation of a wide array of industrial and commercial clients, as well as trade associations, in all aspects of state and local tax at the administrative level as well as in litigation.
- Representation of numerous industrial clients in state and local tax litigation.
- Successfully represented multiple industrial clients in state and local sales and use tax cases involving the raw material/reprocessing exclusion.
- Successfully represented multiple industrial clients in state and local sales and use tax cases involving the constitutionality of taxation of railcars operating in interstate commerce.
- Representation of a number of Louisiana's major commercial and industrial trade associations in important state and local tax cases.
- Representation of pipeline clients in expropriation and condemnation actions for under state law and under the federal Natural Gas Act, in property disputes and in property damage claims.
- Experience representing clients in contractual mineral law disputes.
- Experience representing clients in oilfield legacy litigation.
- Experience in general, commercial litigation.
Education
- LSU Law Center, J.D., 1986
- Member, Order of the Coif
- Law Review Candidate
- LSU, B.S., magna cum laude, 1979
Admissions
- Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Memberships
- Member, Baton Rouge Bar Association
- Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
Recognition
- AV Preeminent-rated, Martindale-Hubbell
Articles, Publications and Presentations
- "Bridges v. Nelson Industrial Steam Company, Inc. and Recent Amendments to Louisiana's Further Processing Exclusion from Sales and Use Tax," Louisiana Law Blog, September 13, 2016
- "Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeals Rejects Disguised "Primary Purpose" Test for Application of the Further Processing Exclusion from Sales Tax to Dual Purpose Materials," Louisiana Law Blog, February 12, 2016
- "Mennonite Board of Missions v. Adams: Expansion of the Due Process Notice Requirement," Comment, 46 Louisiana Law Review 311
- "Circumnavigating Louisiana's Interstate Commerce Exclusion by Apportioning Taxes Upon Instrumentalities of Interstate Commerce," 38 Louisiana Bar Journal 25
- "Selected Ethics Rules Governing the Attorney-Client Relationship in Civil Practice," Baton Rouge Bar Association CLE By the Hour Seminar, 1997, 1998
- Speaker on various Louisiana Sales and Use Issues, National Business Institute, 1991, 1992, 1994, 2002
Community Service
- Member, Baton Rouge Bar Association (Lawyer Referral Service Committee)
- VIP Pro Bono Volunteer, Baton Rouge Bar Association
- Member, United Way of Baton Rouge (Meeting Basic Needs Committee)