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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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Mar
28
2017
No Choice of Law Provisions Allowed: Colorado Law Applies to All Colorado Construction Projects Holland & Hart LLP
Mar
15
2017
2016-2017 Arizona Case Law and Legislative Developments Affecting Commercial Real Estate and Lending Ryley Carlock & Applewhite, A Professional Corporation
Mar
14
2017
Contractors: Project Documentation Can Make or Break Your Claim Holland & Hart LLP
Mar
13
2017
Brazil's Provisional Measure 752/16: New Arbitration Rules on Public Partnership Programs Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Mar
10
2017
The New Jersey Prompt Payment Act Stark & Stark
Feb
28
2017
Illinois Appellate Court Issues Important Decision Regarding Implied Warranty of Habitability Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Feb
27
2017
Pennsylvania’s New “State Construction Notices Directory” and the Implementation of Significant Changes to Pennsylvania’s Mechanics’ Lien Law K&L Gates
Feb
27
2017
Opportunity to Extend Development Orders and Permits for Almost 16 Months Bilzin Sumberg
Feb
27
2017
Colorado Supreme Court Cleans Up Indemnification Timing Mess Holland & Hart LLP
Feb
27
2017
D.C. Remediation Contract Can Trigger Duties to Third Party at Construction Site Beveridge & Diamond PC
Feb
26
2017
OSHA Levies Fines in Fatal Construction Accident Case Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers
Feb
24
2017
Australia Litigation: Time Waits for No-One When a Garnishee Order can be Obtained to Enforce an Adjudicator's Determination K&L Gates
Feb
21
2017
Latest (and Greatest) Colorado Construction Defect Reform Bill—SB17-156 Holland & Hart LLP
Feb
21
2017
Construction One-Minute Read: Preparing Change Orders Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Feb
20
2017
Third Party Funding For Arbitration in Hong Kong K&L Gates
Feb
13
2017
Status quo Returns: the Australia High Court Weighs in on Reference Dates and the NSW Court of Appeal Clears up the Grounds for Challenge K&L Gates
Feb
10
2017
Colorado Allows Interference Claim Against Neighbor Who Scared Off Contractor Holland & Hart LLP
Feb
7
2017
Construction One-Minute Read: The Unbearable Lightness of Being an Additional Insured Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Feb
7
2017
Construction Contract Keystones, Part I: Payment Mechanisms Much Shelist, P.C.
Feb
7
2017
Developer-in-Chief: How the New U.S. President May Affect the Construction Industry Much Shelist, P.C.
Feb
7
2017
Letters of Intent in Construction Industry: The How, Why and Why Not of Enforceability Much Shelist, P.C.
Feb
6
2017
Another Joint Employer Test Makes Its Debut Foley & Lardner LLP
Jan
31
2017
UK Constructive Discretion: Allowing Legal Proceedings During Statutory Moratorium Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jan
23
2017
Construction Law: Picerne Construction Corp. v. Castellino Villas (Feb. 18, 2016, C071197) Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jan
13
2017
Arizona Court of Appeals Rules That Coverage for an Additional Insured is no Greater than Coverage Afforded a Named Insured – Interpretation of the “Your Work” Exclusion Dickinson Wright PLLC
Jan
9
2017
New FIDIC Yellow Book 2017 - Major Changes: Fédération Internationale des Ingénieurs-Conseils K&L Gates
Dec
30
2016
Investors in Many Syndicated Conservation Easement Deals Must Notify the IRS Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Dec
23
2016
Commercial Lease Alert: New Access Law Disclosure Requirements In Leases Effective January 1, 2017 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
 

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