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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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Jul
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2017
What Real Estate Settlement Service and Other Consumer Financial Services Providers Need to Know About the CFPB’s Final Arbitration Rule Foley & Lardner LLP
Jul
1
2011
Expanding Gambling in Maryland Beyond Simply Slots - It's a Crap Shoot Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mar
3
2015
Berkeley Hillside: New Supreme Court Decision Defines Limits of CEQA Exemption Challenges to Development Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jul
12
2019
Don't Jump Without a Parachute! Understanding Community Association Insurance Needs Ward and Smith, P.A.
May
16
2024
New York City Announces Anticipated Deviations from Recently Promulgated New York State Corporate Tax Regulations Blank Rome LLP
Nov
23
2020
Escheatment: The States’ Anticipated Cash Cow Polsinelli PC
Mar
17
2015
House Bill 9 Reforms Ohio Receivership Law re: Real Property Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
May
28
2024
FHA Announces New Guidelines Allowing Borrowers to Challenge Appraisals Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Oct
28
2013
Sixth Circuit Requires Expert Testimony to Prove Causation in Paper Mill Nuisance Case Beveridge & Diamond PC
Aug
17
2017
The Margate Dune Project, Cooperative Federalism, and Problems of Litigation Procedure Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
12
2011
Asbestos Litigation Case Questions Safety in the Workplace Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Mar
30
2015
North Carolina Court of Appeals Addresses Common Affirmative Defenses In Commercial Foreclosure Context Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jun
6
2024
The Russian Federation’s Introduced Compensation Protocol in Response to the Unfriendly Acts of the US Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
5
2013
Two Sports Icons and Myriad Land Use Issues Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sep
5
2017
Commercial Real Estate: Tensions in Due Diligence Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Oct
12
2022
Five Key Issues of Importance in Preparing EB-5 Source of Funds for Vietnamese Investors Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
25
2011
Indiana Appeals Court Finds Appeal of Ordinance Violation Not Moot Even After Fine Is Paid Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Apr
8
2015
Eviction by Email? in Michigan Varnum LLP
Aug
19
2019
Court of Appeal Rules HERO Cannot Save Previously Vacated Rental Units Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
18
2024
Florida House Bill 1203 Includes Broad Changes for HOAs Varnum LLP
Nov
18
2013
Important Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) Legislation Signed into Law in Wisconsin: Additional Tools Available for Towns to Finance Development Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Jan
20
2021
Is the Real Estate Industry a Target for Cyberattacks? Jackson Lewis P.C.
Sep
22
2011
Countrywide Protected Fraudsters by Silencing Whistleblowers, Say Former Employees Center for Public Integrity
Apr
22
2015
What is Done is Done – and Cannot be Undone - Eleventh Circuit Hillcrest Property v. Pasco County re: Land Use Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Aug
26
2019
Mass. Legislature Weighs Changes to Zoning Act; Quick Decision on Plaintiff’s Standing is Proposed Pierce Atwood LLP
Oct
5
2017
Steps One, Two…Now What Do I Do? Protecting Your Property Value Jones Walker LLP
Feb
10
2021
COVID-19 Vaccination Considerations for the Real Estate Industry Jackson Lewis P.C.
Dec
1
2022
The Only Constant Is Change: Use of ‘Anticipatory Contracting’ in Real Estate Restructuring Deals Greenberg Traurig, LLP
 

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