Lee writes about residential home mortgage lending, real estate, real estate law, and real estate finance issues. She also writes widely on consumer finance, including advice on handling credit, financing durable goods and financing education (student loans). Lee's work on topics such as debt consolidation loans and insurance product comparisons has been published on consumer websites and she has been quoted in The New York Times (on private mortgage insurance) and in many law reviews.
In addition to writing on consumer and mortgage finance, Lee has written and presented webinars on professional development and career advancement for lawyers, with articles on these subjects published in the ABA Journal.
Lee enjoys writing about travel and combining fitness and travel. Her articles on these topics have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the ABA Journal plus several regional and community magazines.
Residential real estate; condominium living; apartment living; home mortgage finance; mortgage refinancing; real estate law; real estate judicial decisions; consumer finance; consumer finance law; student lending; cooperative apartment law; real estate disputes; senior fitness; senior fitness and travel; international travel; bicycling; hiking; trail running; tennis
Lee Negroni practiced law for more than 30 years, in both private law firms (including she founded and merged into an AmLaw 200 firm) and major corporations. Her professional focus between 1983 and her retirement in 2016 was consumer credit and residential mortgage finance and the compliance issues of both. These topics expanded to cover consumer financial privacy, technology use in consumer lending and marketing of novel consumer loans. Publishers of Lee's work include Thomson Reuters/Westlaw, Lexis Nexis, Mortgage Banking magazine, Mortgage Servicing magazine, Scotsman's Guide, the American Bankers Association, Aspatore Books, the American Bar Association and others.
Lee Negroni has been active in the publications area for more than 30 years, beginning with her legal writing for Clark Boardman Callaghan & Co., a predecessor to Thomson Reuters/Westlaw. Since then she has written for Lexis Nexis online Real Estate Community (the now-defunct column, "Real Cases in Real Estate") and has pitched articles to dozens of publications which have published her work. These include newspapers The Washington Post, The New York Times International Edition and Warren (Va) Sentinel. Her blogposts for WalletHub have been republished in various papers including the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Lee Negroni is a formerly licensed Virginia real estate agent and she has been an investor in residential real estate for about 25 years. Her experience as a landlord in residential condominiums and cooperative apartments is documented in columns published in the (now-defunct) Lexis Nexis online real estate column "Real Cases in Real Estate." She has written about terms that should be considered for subletting leases and answered public questions online for publications including Mortgage Management and Avvo. Earlier, her articles appeared in JD Supra, an online forum for legal professionals.
Lee Negroni loves to travel and has visited dozens of countries, for periods ranging from a few days to a few months. She has visited Paris, France and the major cities in Australia often. She has been interviewed on the radio about her adventures and with her sister Christine Negroni, Lee co-wrote a 2024 article about creating authentic experiences abroad; it appeared in The New York Times International Edition and was one of the most-read travel articles of the year. Lee's approach to travel is lighthearted, as seen in the title of her published column on hiking in Switzerland, "If You Can Play 18 Holes of Golf, You Can Hike the Alps." She hopes to encourage readers to not only get out, but get out and play.
Lee became interested in senior fitness after retiring from active law practice; her personal journeys and adventures in health and wellness are documented in articles on bicycling, running, hiking, trail running and tennis. These appear in Inside Harbour Living Magazine/Stroll Gulf Harbour, a community magazine in Fort Myers, Florida; Soundings, the newspaper of the Gulf Harbour Yacht and Country Club; the Athlinks blog; and the ABA Journal. Recently Lee wrote about participating for the first time in the Senior Olympics (aka Senior Games); this was published in Stroll Gulf Harbour and has been republished on the website of the Northern Virginia Senior Olympics.
Lee discovered fitness and exercise after decades in a deskbound profession. At age 65 she began to exercise regularly and now writes frequently about the activities she enjoys most, including racket sports, hiking, running and bicycling. Lee's approach is that of "if I can do it, you can do it." She is a regular at the gym and on the tennis courts in Arlington, Virginia and Fort Myers, Florida.
From 1983 to 2015, Lee wrote dozens of articles on consumer credit, mortgage lending, consumer privacy, financial regulation, internet lending, loan origination, student loans and similar topics. These were published in law journals, general interest magazines and professional journals including Mortgage Banking, The ABA Journal, Washington Lawyer, The National Mortgage Broker, The Banking Law Journal, Scotsmans Guide, Servicing Management, and National Mortgage News.
In the United States, Lee N has spoken and presented at meetings and conferences of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), the American Conference Institute (ACI), Practicing Law Institute (PLI), Executive Enterprise Institute (EEI), National Association of Mortgage Brokers (NAMB), American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators (AARMR), The Florida Bar, Texas Bar, and other organizations. She has spoken to business, student and legal audiences in India, Slovakia and China, on subjects including mortgage origination and foreclosure, civil procedure, and outsourcing opportunities enabling foreign lawyers to work for American law firms and corporations.
As a career development mentor, Lee has created presentations for the career development office of The Washington College of Law of American University where she was a member of the adjunct faculty from 2012 to 2022.
Lee has been a blogpost contributor for Smarsh, a communications, data and intelligence platform, and NewOak, a financial risk management and litigation support consultancy. Since 2022, she has been a regular contributor to WalletHub, an online platform for consumer credit advice and research.
Lee was for 7 years the Editor-in-Chief of "Pratt's Mortgage Compliance Letter" and founder and editor of "LPO Network," a (discontinued) newsletter reporting on the outsourcing of legal services to India.
Lee N is the author of the first and leading legal treatise on home mortgage lending and mortgage brokerage, Residential Mortgage Lending: State Regulation Manual. The six-volume work has been published since 1989 and has been online on Westlaw for about 20 years. The title covers the laws of the 50 states and US territories as they apply to the origination, servicing and foreclosure of mortgage loans. It is updated twice a year by Lee and her paralegal assistant, and is a mainstay of most national mortgage companies, law libraries and government regulators.
Lee is also co-author of The American Bankers Association's workbook and study guide for mortgage banking professionals, Introduction to Mortgage Lending (first through third editions). It is used to train mortgage loan originators and includes detailed chapters on the loan law, rules and their underlying rationale. Each chapter has a list of questions to test the reader's knowledge.
Lee contributed a chapter on subprime mortgage lending litigation in "Instant Awareness," a series of expert commentary and insights published by Aspatore Books in 2008.
She was lead author (with co-authors) of "Pratt's State Regulation of Second Mortgages and Home Equity Loans," published by A.S. Pratt/Sheshunoff/Thomson Media Group.
Lee edited the book, Law of Electronic Signatures, by Jerry Buckley and John Kromer, and the book "Deadly Departure," a nonfiction work on airline crashes, written by her sister Christine, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.