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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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Jan
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2020
More Clarity on What Constitutes a Final, Appealable Order in Bankruptcy After Ritzen Group Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC Foley & Lardner LLP
Apr
19
2023
California City Flouts Housing Laws, Inviting State Scrutiny Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct
15
2015
Judge Upholds Pennsylvania PUC Decision Granting Eminent Domain for Pipeline Facility Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
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
May
19
2014
Florida's Distressed Condominium Relief Act Gets Further Extension of Life Bilzin Sumberg
Apr
25
2023
Use It or Lose It: U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Holds in MOAC Mall Holdings LLC That 363(m) Protections Can Be Waived Bracewell LLP
Aug
7
2012
J-1 Interns and Trainees: What happened at Wyndham should stay at Wyndham Mintz
Apr
30
2018
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Amends Timing Provisions of Federal “Know Before You Owe” Rule Covington & Burling LLP
Oct
28
2015
Land Use – Transportation Impact Fees Stark & Stark
Jul
15
2021
FHFA Releases Policy Statement On Fair Lending Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Feb
12
2020
False Claims Act Settlement Reached For Alleged L.A. Housing Discrimination Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto
Aug
18
2012
Boundary Disputes: Riparian Bottomlands Disputes, Part 2 Varnum LLP
May
14
2018
UK Government Proposes Beneficial Owners Registry of Overseas Companies That Own UK Property Katten
Nov
20
2015
Illinois Supreme Court Holds Trustee of Land Trust is Entitled to Rescind Reverse Mortgage For Failure to Comply With TILA ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jun
18
2014
Michigan “Lakefront” Buyers Beware Varnum LLP
Sep
14
2012
“Slam Dunk” Liability Defense Does Not Abrogate Duty to Defend Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Dec
15
2015
Breaking Up is Hard to Do…Marks & Spencer v. BNP Paribas Securities Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Aug
6
2021
McDermottPlus Check-Up: August 6, 2021 McDermott Will & Emery
Jun
25
2014
P3s (Public-Private Partnerships) are a Viable Tool for Convention Center Development Bilzin Sumberg
Mar
5
2020
Homeless Assistance Centers and the NIMBY Response [PODCAST] Bilzin Sumberg
Jun
1
2023
Supreme Court Narrows Scope of Waters Protected by the Clean Water Act in Sackett v. EPA Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
20
2018
HUD Reconsiders 2013 Disparate Impact Final Rule Ballard Spahr LLP
Dec
30
2015
It’s Getting Easier to do Business in Massachusetts Murtha Cullina
Aug
25
2021
Condo Association Boards: Plan for the Future by Staying Ahead of Maintenance and Repairs Stark & Stark
Oct
16
2012
Michigan Supreme Court Remands Cherryland After Enactment of Legislation Deeming Solvency Covenants of Non-Recourse Loans Unenforceable Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jun
30
2018
Modernizing Real Estate Records With Blockchain Proskauer Rose LLP
Sep
7
2021
Before and After the Storm: Know Your Insurance Rights, Coverages and Obligations Hunton Andrews Kurth
Jul
21
2014
Raleigh's (North Carolina) Citywide Zoning Remapping Goes Interactive Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
 

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