DC Johnson, PLLC

Where the firm works

The practice sits in the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia. It describes itself as a full-service, veteran-owned firm. It serves individuals and businesses across Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Hampton, Suffolk, Newport News, Poquoson, and Yorktown.

Work runs from two offices, one in Virginia Beach and one in Hampton. The firm also offers phone consultations for clients who cannot come in. Having a base on both the south side and the peninsula fits a practice meant to cover the whole Hampton Roads area, not one city.

Focus and practice areas

The firm handles a wide range of matters, and real estate law carries the most detail on its pages.

Property and real estate

Real estate work covers for-sale-by-owner closings, landlord and tenant disputes, and HOA and timeshare issues. It also reaches into land use, zoning, and variances. Commercial real estate and leasing round out this side of the practice.

That range suggests the firm can take a property matter from a simple closing through to a zoning question or a lease dispute. In my opinion, the depth here reads as the firm's main footing.

Estate planning and family matters

On the planning side, the firm prepares wills, trusts, and powers of attorney. Family law is part of the work as well. The firm provides guardian ad litem services for cases that call for one, which ties into both its family and litigation work.

Criminal, traffic, and business work

The practice takes on criminal law, along with traffic matters and DUI defense. It also handles business law, contract law, and civil litigation. Read together, the list points to a general practice that keeps real estate at its center while covering the everyday legal needs of local families and small businesses.

How the team is built

The site names three attorneys. One founded and manages the firm, one focuses on litigation and guardian ad litem work, and one serves in an of-counsel role.

David C. Johnson

Johnson is the Founder and Managing Partner. He is a retired U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel with 25 years of service. He has practiced law since 2005. His own work spans real estate, estate planning, family law, business matters, and criminal defense.

His law degree comes from Regent University School of Law. He is licensed by the Virginia State Bar. He is a member of the Virginia Beach Bar Association and the Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association. The firm's legal entity, DC Johnson, PLLC, names him as the responsible attorney.

Lisa Dale Woodward

Woodward practices as an Attorney at Law and serves as a Guardian ad Litem. Before this role, she was a Senior Deputy District Attorney. She also served as Chief of the Domestic Abuse Division of the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. That prosecutorial background gives her direct familiarity with the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems.

Her presence adds courtroom experience to a firm otherwise weighted toward transactional real estate. For clients facing litigation or a matter involving children, that mix matters.

Jeff Haughney

Haughney is listed as Of Counsel. The site does not publish further detail about his practice or background. As a reviewer, I note the gap rather than guess at it.

What the record shows

The verifiable facts here are modest and consistent. The firm ties its trade name to a named responsible attorney and to a registered legal entity behind it. A law school, bar license, and two local bar memberships are stated for the founder. That is a firmer footing than many directory listings provide.

The veteran-owned label is worth flagging as a plain fact rather than a slogan. Johnson's 25 years in the Marine Corps are stated on the attorney page, so the claim rests on a named person's record.

A few things are left open. The site does not give a founding year for the firm itself. The "since 2005" date refers to Johnson's own years in practice, not the age of the business, and a reader should keep that distinction clear. Bios for the second and third attorneys are thin, and Haughney's is absent beyond his title.

The firm keeps a second office in Hampton, at 27 W. Queens Way, and offers phone consultations alongside the two locations. Its lawyers bring courtroom backgrounds to that mix. Lisa Dale Woodward, who also serves as a guardian ad litem, was a Senior Deputy District Attorney and led the Domestic Abuse Division at the Bucks County District Attorney's Office before moving into private practice. That prosecutorial experience sits behind the family law and criminal defense work the firm lists.

In my opinion, the picture that emerges is a locally rooted general practice led by a long-serving attorney, with real estate as its strongest thread and litigation support on the bench. Prospective clients would benefit if the firm added founding details and fuller attorney profiles. What is published, though, is specific and attributable, which is the part that counts for a directory built on evidence.