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Exceeding Client Expectations since 1916

For 100 years, our Knoxville, Tennessee general practice law firm has been exceeding client expectations through skilled legal services and excellent customer service. With our combined experience in many different facets of the law, we strive to satisfy all the business and legal needs of our wide variety of corporate, governmental and individual clients in Tennessee and the southeast region.

Kennerly Montgomery is a general practice law firm providing diverse professional services both inside and outside the courtroom to a wide variety of individual, corporate and governmental clients. Our attorneys practice in all state and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as before administrative boards and panels and alternative dispute tribunals.

News & Highlights

04/08/21

Kathy Aslinger named Managing Shareholder

Kennerly Montgomery has named Kathy D. Aslinger the new Managing Shareholder, the first female to assume this role in the firm's 100+-year history.

04/07/21

Marshall Peterson appointed ACTEC Tennessee State Chair

Knoxville lawyer Marshall H. Peterson, currently practicing with Kennerly, Montgomery & Finley, PC, was recently appointed Tennessee State Chair for the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel (ACTEC).

04/06/21

Succession Planning for Your Business, Your Family, and Yourself

Eddy R. Smith, Esq. recently had an article for the Knoxville News Sentinel picked up by MSN for national distribution. Click here to read it!

Articles & Publications

What Will Happen With (What Might Be) Your Most Valuable Asset?

Succession Planning for Your Business, Your Family, and Yourself

CARES Act Provides Fuding Relief for Single-Employer Defined Benefit Pension Plans

Kathy D. Aslinger, Esq. contributed to Westminster Consulting's Confero Issue 32 about Defined Benefit Pension Plans. "COVID-19 has undoubtedly brought challenges to individuals and businesses alike, as countries all over the world grapple with sickness, death, lockdowns, business closures, financial instability, and loss. In March, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act, providing aid and financial relief for individuals and businesses, including funding relief for sponsors of single-employer defined benefit pension plans. This relief came in the form of a delayed funding deadline and flexibility in determining a plan’s adjusted funding target attainment percentage (“AFTAP”) for a plan year that includes 2020."