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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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Aug
4
2010
Board Sets Aside Union Fine of Whistleblower Williams Kastner
Aug
2
2010
Independent Contractor Prevented From Suing Jobsite Owner Williams Kastner
Jul
28
2010
Breach of Contract May Lead to False Claims Liability on Public Works Contracts (CA) Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
18
2010
Notice Of Exemption Triggers A 35-Day Statute Of Limitations Under CEQA Despite Flaws in Underlying Approval Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
11
2010
Supercenters Do Not Automatically Trigger Requirement To Study Urban Decay Effects In An EIR Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
10
2010
Modified Total Cost Method of Proving Damages: Approved For California Public Works Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
9
2010
FAPIIS: The New Integrity Database For Government Contractors Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
7
2010
California Court of Appeal Limits Duties Owed by Construction Managers to General Contractors Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
5
2010
Contractor’s Lien Waiver For Progress Payment Waived Date Of First Furnishing Poyner Spruill LLP
Jun
4
2010
Florida District Court Ruling on Condo Buyers' Deposits Opens Door for Canceled Contracts and Refunds Duane Morris LLP
May
20
2010
Obtaining Stimulus Funds Comes With "Green" Strings Attached Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
May
5
2010
Changes in Labor Requirements on Public--Including School--Construction Projects Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Mar
13
2010
Ohio Supreme Court Enforces Prevailing-Wage Penalties Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Mar
7
2010
Pay When Paid Clauses - Sword & Shield Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Mar
1
2010
Made-Whole Doctrine Does Not Apply to Insurance Policy Deductibles Goldberg Segalla LLP
Feb
16
2010
Massachusetts Appeals Court holds that exception to pollution exclusion allows coverage for common law liability, even when such liablity overlaps 21E liability Nina E. Kallen Attorney at Law
Feb
2
2010
How Does the New Federal Contractors Tax Directive Raise the Stakes for Independent Contractor Misclassification? Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Feb
1
2010
Building Green Without Losing Green: Managing Risks In Sustainable Design And Construction Contracts Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A.
Dec
30
2009
One Planner’s Blight Is Another Man’s Treasure: Two New York City Cases Bring Eminent Domain Back to the Spotlight Bingham McCutchen LLP
Oct
4
2009
A Second Chance for North Carolina Development Poyner Spruill LLP
Aug
27
2009
Winning the Battle to Arbitrate: Was the Victory Real or Pyrrhic? Much Shelist, P.C.
Aug
23
2009
Your Policy Or Mine? Navigating the Shoals of Concurrent Insurance Much Shelist, P.C.
Aug
13
2009
Construction and Real Estate Industry Clients Take Note: Modifications of Chapter 44A Materialman’s Lien Law Are Being Proposed Poyner Spruill LLP
Jul
31
2009
Recovery Zone Facility Bonds at a Glance Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
Jul
31
2009
The Latest Developments with the E-Verify Program Akerman Senterfitt
Jul
30
2009
New Developments on Federal Highway and Transit Programs Akerman Senterfitt
Jul
30
2009
Internal Control Compliance: It's More Than You Think. Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
30
2009
Appellate Court Decision Invalidating Unjustified "Affordable Housing In Lieu Fees" Is Now Final (BIACC v. City of Patterson) Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
 

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