Reading
610.478.2133
610.988.0841 fax
sja@stevenslee.com

Steve concentrates his practice in creditors' rights and commercial collections with an emphasis in complex real estate and agricultural workouts and bankruptcies. Steve also has extensive experience in commercial, agricultural, high-end residential and complicated foreclosure and replevin proceedings.

Steve represents major financial institutions, state and local governmental units and landlords in all aspects of the collection process, including litigation in state and federal courts, execution proceedings and bankruptcy litigation. He routinely defends financial institutions in lending, mortgage and collection-related litigation involving alleged violations of the National Bank Act, the Truth in Lending Act, the Real Estate Settlement and Procedures Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Credit Billing Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Soldiers and Sailors' Relief Act. Steve also defends clients in state law claims arising under Act 6, Act 91, Pennsylvania's Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law, and under Pennsylvania's mortgage and judgment satisfaction penalty statutes. He has extensive experience with Pennsylvania's confession of judgment procedure and in locating and recovering concealed assets.

Steve is a contributing author to the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and often speaks and writes about Pennsylvania's confession of judgment procedure.

Representative Cases:
In re Mezvinsky, 265 B.R. 681 (Bkrtcy.E.D. Pa. 2001)
The Huntington National Bank v. Global Publishing Papers, Inc., 853A.2d 396 (Pa. Super 2004)

Selected Publications:
"Pennsylvania Enacts New Mortgage Satisfaction Act." Real Estate Finance, August 2003.

Education:
The Dickinson School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1989 
Elizabethtown College, B.A., 1986

Bar Admissions:
Pennsylvania

Court Admissions:
U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court of the Middle District of Pennsylvania
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Professional Associations/Civic Affiliations:
Berks County Bar Association, Bankruptcy Committee
Pennsylvania Bar Association, Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section
American Bar Association, Litigation Section
Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference
Commercial Law League of America
ACA International