Odell Keplinger
Attorney
I grew up in Carter County and came home to practice. For years now, my whole practice has been disability claims.
Before I had my own office, I worked at a firm in Knoxville that handled everything from wills to car wrecks. The cases that stayed with me were the disability claims: a machinist with a ruined back, a Marine whose hearing loss the VA rated at zero. So when I came back to Johnson City, I opened an office for those claims and nothing else.
It's a one-lawyer office on purpose. When you call, you reach me or my assistant, Jo, and the person who reads your records is the person who sits beside you at the hearing. I'm accredited by the VA to represent veterans, and I keep a list of every deadline on the wall where I can see it.
Where Odell is admitted, and where he studied
Bar admissions
Tennessee
2010
Virginia
2014
Courts
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee
2011
U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
2016
Accreditation
Accredited by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
2016
Education
J.D., University of Tennessee College of Law
2010
B.A., East Tennessee State University
2007
Languages
English
Call the office and you'll get me or Jo
Weekdays, 8:30 to 5. If we miss you, we call back.