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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
8
2019
Financial Services Update: Week Ending November 1, 2019 Carlton Fields
Aug
13
2015
Fair Housing Act and Disparate-Impact – Is There a Bit of a Silver Lining in the Dark Cloud of a Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision? von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Mar
28
2023
Jurisdictional or Nonjurisdictional? That Is the Question: SCOTUS Today Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Apr
1
2014
This Couldn’t Happen in My Mixed-Use Condominium….or Could It? Re: Condominium Trusts Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Apr
26
2012
Michigan Court of Appeals Issues Opinion Affecting Mortgages Foreclosed by Advertisement Varnum LLP
May
10
2021
Pandemic-Driven Devalued Retail Real Estate Owners Should Seek Property Tax Reductions Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Feb
21
2018
Tips to Help Property Managers Effectively Manage Meetings Stark & Stark
Apr
10
2014
Ninth Circuit Rules National Banks are Residents Only of Their Home State Bilzin Sumberg
May
18
2012
Loan Modification Scammers Recruiting Lawyers Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission
May
20
2021
Regis – Another Loss For Regis – Another Loss For UK Landlords In Their Battle Against CVAsUK Landlords In Their Battle Against CVAs Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Mar
13
2018
California Legislation Guide for Developers Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Sep
21
2015
Advising Mortgage Lenders and Servicers Through Long-term Effects of Carson decision Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
Apr
17
2014
"Rails to Trails" or "Rails to Trespass": Supreme Court Speaks on the Abandonment of Certain Railroad Rights of Way Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jun
14
2012
Maryland Indemnity Deeds of Trust – A Closed Loophole? Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Dec
20
2019
Two Pairs of Eyes Are Better Than One: Why Community Associations and Developers Should Have Separate Legal Counsel Ward and Smith, P.A.
Oct
12
2015
PACE: Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Apr
27
2023
Navigating the Solar Energy Development Approval Process in Michigan Varnum LLP
Apr
30
2014
Appellate Court of Illinois Provides Guidance On Condo Board Operations & Owners’ Rights Much Shelist, P.C.
Jul
8
2012
Is your Neighbor’s Dock on your Bottomlands? Equitably Apportioning Riparian Rights. Varnum LLP
Jun
15
2021
Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Modifies "Stranger to the Deed" Rule Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
May
11
2023
CFIUS Expands Reach of its Covered Real Estate Authority with the Addition of Eight New “Military Installations” Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
May
13
2014
North Carolina Court of Appeals Upholds Use of Zoning Powers Against Landlords to Regulate Parking By Tenants Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jul
24
2012
Cottage Planning: Dealing with Estate Taxes, Part II Varnum LLP
Jan
21
2020
More Clarity on What Constitutes a Final, Appealable Order in Bankruptcy After Ritzen Group Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC Foley & Lardner LLP
Aug
19
2012
The Sixth Circuit rules on the deadline for completing action on a CAFA appeal and whether a third-party defendant may remove under CAFA Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Jul
7
2021
How Do the Recent Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) Challenge Decisions in New Look and Regis Impact UK Insolvency Practitioners? Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Dec
1
2015
Legislación para las P3 en Florida Bilzin Sumberg
Jun
11
2014
Implications of the New California LLC (Limited Liability Company) Act Mintz
 

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