Keel, Jimmie R.

Mr. Keel was born on January 19, 1952, in Tarboro, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974 with honors in Economics. He graduated from East Carolina University in 1977 with a Masters in Business Administration and from Wake Forest University in 1978 with a Juris Doctor degree.

Mr. Keel began the private practice of Law as a solo practitioner in 1978 in his home town of Tarboro, North Carolina, the county seat of Edgecombe County. After practicing with several distinguished members of the local bar for several years, he again became a solo practitioner in 1983. He slowly narrowed his practice to civil litigation and then to medical-legal related matters. The firm's geographic practice area now extends throughout North Carolina.

Mr. Keel is a member of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

He has represented clients before all trial and appellate divisions of the state courts as well as the Industrial Commission, Federal Courts and the Social Security Administration. His trial experience ranges from first degree murder to complex medical malpractice. He now concentrates his practice in the area of medical-legal related matters.