Attorney Profiles

John W. Lee

John W. Lee was born in Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia on March 21, 1973. John lived in the Princess Anne area of Virginia Beach where he attended Princess Anne junior high school and graduated from Kellam High School in 1991. He was an active member of the Boy Scouts in high school and atttained the rank of Eagle Scout in 1989. John graduated from Liberty University in 1995 with a major in Government and a minor in Philosophy. He graduated in the top third of his class from Regent University School of Law in 1998. In that same summer he married his wife Dawn Lee and they have been happily married for over eight years. John passed the Virginia State Bar exam the first time he took it and began practicing law in Norfolk, Virginia in 1998. He joined a firm in Hampton, Virginia in 2000 and opened his own firm in September 2002. He opened his second office in April 2006 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. John primarily practices in the areas of bankruptcy, divorce, criminal, and civil contracts. He is admitted to practice before all Virginia Courts and the Eastern District of Virginia Bankruptcy Bar. John is currently a member of the Virginia State Bar, Hampton Bar, and National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys.

Seth Schoenfeld

Seth Schoenfeld joined the firm of John W. Lee in 2006. Seth practices in the areas of Bankruptcy, Divorce, Personal injury, Criminal and Taxation Law. Seth graduated in 1996 from the University of Rochester with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. Seth attended Touro Law Center in Huntington, New York and graduated in 2002. Seth was admitted to practice law in New York in 2003. Seth moved with his family from New York to Norfolk, Virginia in 2004 and was admitted to practice Law in Virginia in 2005. Seth was admitted to practice before the U.S. bankruptcy court in 2006. Seth is an active member of the B’nai Israel Orthodox congregation of Tidewater. Seth is an active member of the New York State Bar Association and the Virginia State Bar Association.

Kim Lewis

Kim received a Bachelor’s Degree from Northern Kentucky University in 1983 and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Marshall Wythe School of Law of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1987. She has been in private practice in Hampton, Virginia since 1988. The focus of her practice has been primarily family law, bankruptcy and criminal defense.

She also works with Transitions to provide affordable representation for victims of domestic violence.

Jennifer Shupert

Jennifer was born in Bartlesvills, Oklahoma on June 11, 1978. She graduated from Oklahoma Christian University in 2000 with a B.S. in Family Studies and Child Law and graduated with her Juris Doctorate in May of 2003, and was admitted to the Virginia Bar in October of 2003. Jennifer is a member of the Virginia Bar Association, the Virginia Beach Bar Association and the Virginia Women Attorney’s Association.

She currently practices in the following areas:

• Domestic: contested and uncontested divorces, custody, support, visitation, separation agreements, motion for show cause, step-parent adoption
• Juvenile: criminal, traffic, status offenses
• Criminal: traffic, misdemeanors, minor felonies, expungements
• Civil: wills, trusts, powers of attorney, advance medical directives, small estate planning

Jennifer has been married to her husband, James, since June of 1999, and they have two children – Carter, born in 2005 and Sophia, born in 2007.

Timothy Roy Douglass

Timothy was born in Topeka, Kansas on March 3, 1986. He graduated in 2003 from Wichita State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and received his Juris Doctor from Regent University in 2006. In law school, Mr. Douglass was a member of the Christian Law Society, and Business Transactions Law Society and he was the Regent Law School Chapter president of the Federalist Society.

 He has been licensed to practice law since October of 2006 and his primary legal experience includes domestic law, criminal law, and estate planning and administration.  

His non-legal experience includes working in Cochabamba, Bolivia as an administrator for Hospitals of Hope to build a pediatric hospital in that region.

Kevin Frank

Kevin was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated from the University of Louisville in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. In 1999, he received his Juris Doctor degree from Regent University. Kevin was admitted to practice in Virginia in 2008. Prior to beginning his law practice, he spent 7 years as a middle school social studies teacher.  

It was during that time that he met his wife Traci. Kevin and Traci were married in 2005 and reside in Virginia Beach where they raise their four boys: William, David, Geoffrey, and Jonathan. Kevin has been an active member of his church choir for over 12 years and coaches youth baseball, basketball and soccer.

Kevin in licensed to practice in all Virginia Courts for the following areas of law: Criminal: misdemeanors, minor felonies, expungements. Traffic: DUI, driving on suspended, reckless driving. Civil: Personal injury, warrant in debt, landlord/tenant.