Roger Johnson

Roger C. Johnson is the retired founding attorney of Koonz McKenney Johnson & DePaolis LLP, which he co-founded in September 1979 with Joseph H. Koonz, Jr. and Carolyn McKenney with a shared goal of aggressively defending the rights of individuals. After earning his J.D. from George Washington University National Law Center in 1977, he served as law clerk to the Honorable George H. Revercomb on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 1977 to 1978. Over a distinguished trial career, he was described by The Washington Post as "The Man Who Makes Them Pay" and obtained record verdicts and settlements in D.C., including the then-largest D.C. settlement in Redd v. Product Development Corporation and the second-largest in Shover v. Stella Steel. In his final three trials before retirement, he obtained verdicts or post-trial settlements totaling nearly $16 million.