Overview
Lisa Hudson Kim is an experienced commercial litigator with over 25 years of experience practicing in state and federal courts of Virginia and North Carolina. Based in Virginia Beach, her litigation practice focuses on representing lenders, collectors, creditors, landlords, and homeowners’ association boards. Lisa counsels businesses, boards, and individuals alike on litigation matters, including those related to family law. She understands that many issues are often suitable for settlement through mediation, informal negotiations, or alternative dispute resolution.
"Thank you again for all your hard work, effort, and experience."
- Lisa's Client, January 2026
Lisa’s clients primarily include credit unions, banks, private lenders, landlords, boards, collectors, businesses, and creditors. She counsels management, leadership, employers, directors, and boards on litigation issues, ranging from code and zoning enforcement, violations, contract and consumer finance disputes, easements, rights of way, and trespass to garnishments, collections, vendor management, repossession, foreclosure, evictions, and tax sales.
As a counselor at law, she helps her clients navigate new and complex legal challenges with confidence and composure. Lisa regularly represents clients in state and federal courts in trials, appeals, and alternative dispute resolution proceedings. She also assists clients in the day-to-day management responsibilities concerning compliance, documentation, and governance, helping them stay ahead of regulatory and legal requirements while avoiding potentially costly lessons.
Lisa recognizes that each case presents a unique opportunity to review documentation, policies, procedures, and practices critically. She often suggests updates and revisions to ensure her clients remain in compliance and strengthen their legal standing, providing comprehensive counsel tailored to their particularized businesses and investments.
In 2023 Lisa formed, and still leads, the firm’s Consumer Debt Collection Practices team, managing attorney and staff team members across most of the firm’s offices. She also serves on the firm’s Credit Union team.
Lisa is a passionate and enthusiastic litigator with deep wells of energy and a formidable work ethic, known for her thorough preparation. She is prone to argue vociferously and energetically on behalf of her clients in the courtroom, at the mediation table, as well as through letters, emails, calls, and video conferences. She is no stranger to objections, motions in limine, and post-trial motions, which she uses to secure favorable results in the courtroom for her clients.
She has a broad depth of legal skills and practices across two states and over 25 years of experience to bring to her clients and their legal problems and challenges.
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Representative Matters
Represents homeowners’ and condo owners’ boards in collections, violations, code and zoning enforcement, contract, employment, vendor management, tax sales, foreclosures, and similar matters across Tidewater
Represents lenders, credit unions, and private lenders in high volumes of lawsuits inside of and outside of Bankruptcy Court across Tidewater and the Commonwealth of Virginia in collection of unpaid vehicle, credit line, credit card, and mortgage loans
Prevailed in a real estate contract dispute after post-trial motions following a 5-day jury trial in Virginia for the sellers of a home alleged to have breached the contract with their inspection disclosures. She secured an attorneys’ fee award as counterclaimant after disqualifying a proposed adverse expert witness
Prevailed in contested collections trials against credit union members in post-vehicle repossession suits for the payment of deficiency balances, as well as regarding credit card and credit line defaults in state courts of Hampton Roads
Successfully mediated several heavily-contested divorces, including equitable distribution, child custody, child and spousal support of high-net-worth individuals and business owners in Virginia
Prevailed in a contested trial in North Carolina to secure a domestic violence protective order for the maximum statutory period of one year for a wife and mother of an infant
Secured contested visitation for a Virginia grandparent of minor children of a deceased parent who died intestate, against the wishes of the surviving unmarried parent in Maryland contesting that visitation
Successfully secured a domestic violence protective order for the mother of a toddler after a contested trial for the maximum statutory period in Virginia of one year
Obtained immediate possession and damage awards in favor of multiple landlord clients in contested eviction or summary ejectment proceedings in Virginia and North Carolina
Recognition & Honors
Honors & Recognitions
AV® Rated; Martindale-Hubbell
CIVIC Leadership Institute, Class of 2026
Virginia Super Lawyers (Litigation), 2008, 2009, 2013
Law Clerk to the late The Honorable Douglas O. Tice, Jr., Chief Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Va. (Richmond Div.), 2000-2001
University of Richmond Law Review, 1998-2000
Published Student Case Note, University of Richmond Law Review, May 1999
Editor-in-Chief, University of Richmond Journal of Law & Technology, 1999-2000
Order of Barristers, 2000
T. C. Williams Scholarship Award from Faculty and Administration as Student Member Concurrently of Three Law School Journals, 2000
Moot Court Board, 1998-2000
Press & Publications
News
Speaking Engagements
Community & Professional
Associations
Virginia Beach Bar Foundation; Board Member, 2024-present
CIVIC Leadership Institute; Class of 2026
Virginia State Bar
Virginia Bar Association
Virginia Beach Bar Association
Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association
North Carolina State Bar
North Carolina Bar Association
American Inn of Court, James Kent Chapter, Norfolk, Virginia
Foundry United Methodist Church; Board of Trustees, Nominating Committee, Media/Publicity Committee, Liturgist, Small Group Leader, Sunday School Teacher, 2012-2020
New Life Global Church, 2020-present
Chi Omega Fraternity, Alumna Association (Tidewater, Richmond), Omicron Beta Advisor (Williamsburg)
Credentials
Education
College of William & Mary; B.B.A. in Finance and Economics, 1995
University of Richmond School of Law; J.D., 2000
Court Admissions
United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Virginia
United States Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Virginia
United States District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
United States District Court, Western District of Virginia
United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
United States Supreme Court
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Beyond the Law
Lisa has backpacked and traveled extensively through Western and Central Europe and beyond, in Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Netherlands, Iceland, Hungary, Canada, Barbados, Jamaica, and the United Kingdom. She loves downhill skiing, dining on tapas and small plates at most any ethnic restaurant, and has yet to meet a dog she dislikes. She tries to glean and absorb technology from her adept teenager usually to little to no avail.
