Kelly A. Love
"I love my job. I get to meet hard-working, energetic people every day. My clients share their expertise with me and I share mine with them. It is a special type of relationship, and their passion is really inspiring."
Kelly A. Love is the business/transactional attorney at Kizer & Black, Attorneys, PLLC. She joined the firm in 2011 and has served as the Chief Manager since 2016. Kelly has a broad range of transactional experience representing clients on entity formations (mainly corporations and LLCs), mergers and acquisitions, business and commercial law transactions (including Uniform Commercial Code transactions), contracts, commercial and residential real estate transactions (including leases), and employment matters such as drafting employment agreements, severance agreements, and non-compete agreements. Kelly’s early years of practice were focused on creditors’ rights and consisted of loan originations, defeasances, securitized mortgage transactions, foreclosures, loan workouts, short sales, and bankruptcy work.
Originally from Knoxville, Kelly graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance. After working in southern California as a bank consultant, she returned to Knoxville to attend the University of Tennessee College of Law and graduated Summa Cum Laude at the top of her class. After law school, she accepted a job with a large law firm in Atlanta, Georgia, before making her way back home to build her practice in East Tennessee.
Boards/Service:
- Chair of Girls Inc. Blount Community Impact Committee (2023 to Present)
- Girls Inc. Corporate Board (2023 to Present)
- United Way of Blount County (2015 – 2021)
- Named 2019’s United Way Board Member of the Year
- United Way’s Community Impact Committee (2018 – 2021)
- Foundation for the Blount County Public Library (2012 – 2017)
- Leadership Blount Class of 2014 – Best Class Ever
- Adjunct professor of Contract Drafting and Representing Enterprises for the University of Tennessee College of Law (2012 – 2015)
She is a member of the Blount County, Knoxville, Tennessee, Georgia, and American Bar Associations and is admitted to practice law in both Tennessee and Georgia. Kelly and her husband, David, met at a music festival in Atlanta, and still enjoy attending live concerts and comedy shows as often as possible.
Publication: A Primer on Opinion Letters: Explanations and Analysis, 9 Transactions: The Tenn. J. of Bus. L. 9 (Fall 2007).