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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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Apr
30
2014
Lender Cleared From Being Classified As a "Developer" Under the Interstate Land Sales Act Poyner Spruill LLP
Sep
16
2015
Do You Have A Duty To Cross The Rubicon? re: North Carolina Real Estate Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Mar
16
2018
S.2155 Does Not Facilitate Discriminatory Lending Ballard Spahr LLP
Jun
15
2021
Decision about a zoning dispute yields insights for both federal courts and appellate practice Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
May
13
2014
Tennessee Limits Employers’ Access to Private Social Media Accounts of Employees, Job Applicants Jackson Lewis P.C.
Oct
1
2015
Difference Between a TAM and Tammy Wynette (Why No One Will Ever Confuse Them) Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jan
7
2020
Final Opportunity Zone Regulations Are Generally Favorable for Taxpayers Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
May
2
2023
U.S. Executive Branch Update – May 2, 2023 Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jul
25
2012
Beware of Cell Tower “Lease Optimization” Varnum LLP
Jun
24
2021
CDC Extends Federal Eviction Moratorium Until July 31, 2021 Nelson Mullins
Oct
15
2015
Illinois Quarterly Review Newsletter Summer 2015: Subrogation Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C.
Jan
17
2020
Court Rules Against Trustee’s Right to a Jury Trial Where the Trustee Agreed To A Summary Proceeding Winstead
May
15
2023
Weekly IRS Roundup May 8 – May 12, 2023
Aug
9
2012
Florida Property Tax Notices Coming This Month…Is Yours Too High? Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A.
Jul
1
2021
COVID-19 Update: Supreme Court Denies Request to Lift CDC’s Eviction Moratorium Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jun
11
2014
California Documentary Transfer Tax: Separate Unrecorded Statement of Tax No Longer Allowed After December 31, 2014 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
30
2023
Mortgage Bankers Association Files Amici Brief in CFPB Constitutionality Case Katten
Aug
23
2012
Michigan’s Homestead-Exemption Law for Bankruptcy Debtors Upheld Varnum LLP
Jun
20
2014
Lenders Face Difficulties Complying with Wisconsin’s New Mortgage Satisfaction Law Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Nov
17
2015
Another Cyber-Risk: Hacks That Cause Property Damage and Interrupt Business Processes Bilzin Sumberg
Feb
6
2020
Navigable Waters Protection Rule: How are the “Waters of the United States” Being Defined? Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
9
2023
Waters of the United States No Longer Frozen in Time — Supreme Court Decision Narrows Federal Jurisdiction Over Wetlands Jones Walker LLP
Sep
17
2012
Financial Services Legislative and Regulatory Law Update - September 17, 2012 Mintz
Jul
28
2021
Law of the Land - Real Estate Litigation Newsletter (July 28, 2021) Goulston & Storrs
Dec
15
2015
Breaking Up is Hard to Do…Marks & Spencer v. BNP Paribas Securities Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jun
14
2023
Hurricane Preparedness for Community Associations Varnum LLP
Oct
8
2012
Dock Permitted at Access Easement – No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Varnum LLP
Jun
20
2018
HUD Reconsiders 2013 Disparate Impact Final Rule Ballard Spahr LLP
 

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