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Real Estate, both commercial and residential, is constantly evolving. The National Law Review covers the latest legal analysis in real estate and construction law across a variety of governmental levels—state and federal. Additionally, NLR covers updates related to transportation and other utilities and public works.

Public and private construction projects, financing, mortgages, tax cuts and incentives, foreclosures, and other topics are covered regularly and updated routinely on the site. Other areas covered include litigation, mediation, and arbitration which affects owners/contractors/subcontractors in the field, government agency news, and coverage of news/stories related to lenders, insurers, and sureties in the industry.

Public work issues are also covered frequently by the National Law Review. Infrastructure financing, topics including entitlements, development rights, property rights, the public-private partnership (P3), permitting, local ordinances, variances, and different legislation/restrictions in development. Coverage of development and property owner rights, cases involving homeowners associations, fees, pending litigation, and changes to local/state/federal ordinances and variances, are also available.

Additionally, the National Law Review covers regulations and legislation as it relates to mortgages and other real estate lending requirements; including, the requirements imposed on lenders under RESPA, and other news from the CFPB as it relates to homeownership and mortgage procedures, such as the Know Before You Owe Rule.

Articles related to highway safety, transportation news, and other utilities-topics, are also covered by the National Law Review. Coverage of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and changes to the organization are analyzed by NLR legal experts. The emerging technology of autonomous vehicles, developments in that technology, and the emerging regulation around driverless cars are analyzed, and the impact of this game-changing technology is considered.

In the construction arena, reporting worker injuries on the job site, and coverage of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) laws are extensively reported on by the attorney writers at the National Law Review. 

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Recent Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure & Zoning News

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Nov
15
2013
Approval of Settlement in Housing Authority Class Action Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sep
20
2011
Court Rejects Immunity Argument In Dispute Over Sewer Overflow Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Sep
11
2017
New York Municipality Not Immune in Negligent Lead Abatement Suit Beveridge & Diamond PC
Dec
18
2020
Can UK retailers use a CVA to re-write existing lease arrangements? Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Apr
13
2015
Tenants Escape Liability for Fire Damage Varnum LLP
Oct
26
2022
Should I Stay or Should I Go: Second Circuit Holds that Mortgagee Violated Automatic Stay by Foreclosing on Property where Bankrupt Tenant was a Named Defendant Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Oct
15
2011
New Change To Required Language For Foreclosure Notices Under California Civil Code § 2924c Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jan
13
2021
New Ownership Disclosure Requirements for Certain Federal High-Security Leased Space Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jun
21
2024
Are “Per Day” Fines Legal? Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Dec
18
2013
Michigan Governor Snyder Signs MISS Dig Legislation Varnum LLP
Apr
28
2015
Quicken Loans Takes on the DOJ & HUD Bilzin Sumberg
Oct
31
2011
New Proposed Regulation § 1.67-4 Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Oct
11
2017
Superior Court Decision Raises the Bar For Municipalities Seeking to Challenge Special Permits And Other Zoning Actions Taken By Neighboring Municipalities Beveridge & Diamond PC
Jan
28
2021
More Breathing Room for Commercial Tenants in Bankruptcy Ward and Smith, P.A.
Jul
2
2024
BLM Signals Federal Land Is Open for Renewables K&L Gates
Jan
8
2014
Marital versus Separate Property in Virginia Divorces Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, P.C.
May
15
2015
Florida Governor Signs Omnibus Growth Management Bill into Law Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
30
2019
California Supreme Court Reinforces CEQA’s Definition of a Project Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Dec
12
2022
More Places, Less Spaces: California is Driving Down Development Costs Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct
18
2017
Banking agencies identify key HMDA data fields Ballard Spahr LLP
Feb
18
2021
Industrial Comes Roaring Back to Record High Optimism Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jul
12
2024
CFPB Wins Big Reversal in Illinois Redlining Lawsuit Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
28
2015
Seller Financing After Dodd-Frank McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Sep
17
2019
Retailers Not Eligible for 100% Leasehold Improvement Write-Off Due to Legislative Glitch Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jan
1
2012
Cell Tower Leases – What Does Your Bank Say? Varnum LLP
Oct
31
2017
Don't Mess With Texas ... Or At Least the Attorneys that Attended the 2017 ICSC Legal Conference von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Mar
1
2021
Time is Running Out to Contest your 2020 Property Tax Value in Ohio Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Jul
23
2024
Pennsylvania’s Carbon Capture and Sequestration Act of 2024 Babst, Calland, Clements & Zomnir, P.C.
 

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