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Intro Speaker: It’s time for Kelly can help hosted by Jeff Kelly, Attorney along with the law office of Jeffrey B. Kelly. And now here’s Jeff Kelly.

Jeff Kelly: All right, got David lovebirds our show today. David, what I’d like to do is introduce you to my clients and my listeners. And if you don’t mind, just tell us a little bit about yourself and your practice and your area of specialty.

David Blevins: Well, it’s good to be here, Jeff, it’s good to be here. The I’ve been practicing for 35 years all here in Dalton, I got out of the University of Georgia law school. My practice now consists of really two areas of emphasis. I do car wrecks and personal injury, which is what I’ve traditionally done for 34 years. But in the last five or six years, in particular, I have done a lot of probate and estate work. And I’ve done probate litigation. And you know, I kind of backed into it, you know, I never plan to do this. But my wife, we practice all together. From the 80s. After I first child was born, she was practicing in Chattanooga, but she was the probate lawyer. And I had a large probate practice. And so in cases we go sour, I was doing litigation. So she would say I would just come into the office and and be a file on my desk. And pretty soon I realized that was a probate case and now needed litigation. So that’s kind of how I learned to do it. And I’ve been doing that about 20 years, and then I’ve just gotten into compliance for about five or six years.

Jeff Kelly: Excellent. Excellent. And let’s see here. What you where’d you go for undergrad?

David Blevins: I went to Carson College in Jefferson City, Tennessee.

Jeff Kelly: Excellent.

David Blevins: Alabama school up in East Tennessee. But 30 miles above Knoxville.

Jeff Kelly: Yeah, that school good school. So how did you end up from Carson Newman to the University of Georgia?

David Blevins: Well, that’s a good, that’s a good question. I was when I got an undergraduate, I was dead, broke and needed a job. So I was behind a girl sitting behind me in church one Sunday. And she told me she said that her mother was a teacher in the Atlanta area, and encouraged me to apply for a mother was a teacher in the Douglas County School System.

Jeff Kelly: Yeah.

David Blevins: So I did because I was desperate and you couldn’t buy a job back in 1979. So I applied in the fall of 79. And by God’s great grace and Providence, they had an opening. One of the teachers was one of the history teachers there at Lithia Springs High School was taking a job as a principal at another school. They had an opening and by the grace of God, they hired me. So I started in December of 1979, teaching history and social studies, and wound up teaching history and math, algebra geometry at Lithia Springs High School. So I became an in State student and as a as a poor college student and a poor teacher. I needed a school that I can afford. So I applied and was accepted to the University of Georgia. I’d like to tell you platings, the University of Georgia because I knew it was a great school. I applied because there’s only one I can afford. But it turned out that it wasn’t a great school. And so it was a great experience.

Jeff Kell