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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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2017
Timing And Buildout Considerations in Lease LOIs Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
May
12
2015
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Mar
11
2021
COVID-19: Government Extends the Eviction Ban for Commercial Leases to 30 June 2021 K&L Gates
Jul
18
2024
Supreme Court Holds That the Eighth Amendment Does Not Prevent Enforcement of Local Camping Bans, Authorizing a Significant Shift in Local Policies on Homelessness Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Feb
17
2014
Conservation and Energy Provisions are Important Parts of New Farm Legislation Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
Jan
6
2023
Court Rules Meriden, CT’s Zoning Regulations Discriminatory Robinson & Cole LLP
Mar
9
2012
New Jersey Appellate Court Resurrects COAH (Council on Affordable Housing) Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
May
26
2015
Partition Me? Unmarried Joint Tenants with Full Rights of Survivorship Fail to State a Claim in Michigan Varnum LLP
Mar
29
2021
California Takes Steps to Incorporate Environmental Justice into Permitting Decisions Hunton Andrews Kurth
Oct
18
2019
Implicit Bias and Disparate Impact Claims: A Primer for Employers (US) Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jan
18
2023
California Air Resources Board Adopts 2022 Scoping Plan Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
5
2015
CFPB Director Cordray Issues First-Ever Agency Appellate Decision in RESPA Case Foley & Lardner LLP
Apr
9
2021
What Do You Mean I Can’t Place the List of Delinquent Homeowners on the Clubhouse Door? Community Association Pitfalls: State and Federal Collection Laws Ward and Smith, P.A.
Mar
13
2014
This Interest May Be Common, But It’s Still Privileged Re: California Evidence Rules Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Nov
20
2017
Can a Condo Association Recover Past-Due Amounts After Owner Files Bankruptcy? Stark & Stark
Nov
8
2019
Financial Services Update: Week Ending November 1, 2019 Carlton Fields
Aug
9
2024
In Massachusetts, Your In-Law Apartment No Longer Makes You An Outlaw Pierce Atwood LLP
Mar
21
2014
Fourth Circuit Holds Minority-Owned Corporation Can Bring Race Discrimination Suit Katten
Feb
14
2023
Biden-Harris Administration Issues White Paper Addressing Tenants’ Rights Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Apr
16
2012
$25 Billion Mortgage Fraud Settlement Marks Turning Point for Industry Ifrah Law
Dec
6
2017
Purchasing LLC Membership Interests vs. Real Estate: Pros and Cons Davis|Kuelthau, s.c.
Jul
2
2015
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Disparate-Impact Claims in Fair Housing Act Cases Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Aug
22
2024
Recent Case Law Does Not Doom All Rental Restriction Amendments Ward and Smith, P.A.
Apr
7
2014
Burden of Proof in Virginia Divorce Cases - Separate vs. Martial Property Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, P.C.
Feb
28
2023
First Offshore Wind Energy Lease Sales in the Gulf of Mexico Hunton Andrews Kurth
May
11
2012
Sentencing Panel Amends Guidelines for Mortgage Fraud Ifrah Law
Jan
2
2018
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May
21
2021
Department of Energy Announces Initiative to Promote Greener HVAC Systems in Residential and Commercial Buildings Mintz
 
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