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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
2010
Next Wave of MBS Litigation Focuses on Issuers, Underwriters Hunton Andrews Kurth
Dec
8
2014
New Jersey Landowner Forfeits Damages by Allowing Defendant to Remediate Beveridge & Diamond PC
Aug
4
2020
Supreme Court's 2020-2021 Preview: Interstate Water Rights K&L Gates
May
1
2019
Opportunity Zones Update: New Proposed Treasury Regulations (PART I) Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Feb
23
2024
Proposed Rule Requires Real Estate Professionals Closing All-Cash Residential Deals To Report To FinCEN Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jul
18
2013
Property "Code Issues" and the Lone Escalators of Wyoming Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Mar
9
2017
Are Homeowners Responsible for Sidewalk Condition During Transition? Stark & Stark
Aug
17
2020
County Zoning Ordinance Cannot be Used to Justify Property Seizure Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
8
2019
Money Grows on Trees for Local Council Pursuing Home Improvement Enthusiasts and Local Football Club Fundraiser Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mar
4
2024
ALJ Rules That a Taxpayer Is a Qualified New York Manufacturer Even Though Qualifying Property Was Operated by a Third Party McDermott Will & Emery
Mar
21
2017
Washington Supreme Court Rejects Sovereign Immunity Defense in Quiet Title Action Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
Feb
24
2011
Brokers - Thou Shalt Not Accept Payments From More Than One Source In Connection With a Mortgage Loan Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Dec
18
2014
The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) Set to Expire Year End Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mar
11
2024
Florida's Affordable Housing Landscape: Legislative Updates and Policy Changes Nelson Mullins
Aug
6
2013
Busy North Carolina Court of Appeals Issues Rulings In Land Use Sphere Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Apr
10
2017
Does Your Community Association Need a Drone Policy? Stark & Stark
Mar
20
2011
Dancing with Danger: Who is at Fault When Concertgoers and Bar Patrons are Injured? Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS)
Dec
24
2014
Fannie Mae’s & Freddie Mac’s Shareholders Take the Offensive Approach Bilzin Sumberg
Jun
6
2019
California Court Finds Tribe Lacks Standing to Quantify Reserved Water Right Beveridge & Diamond PC
Mar
22
2024
NYC’s Rent Stabilization Laws Upheld by Supreme Court in Light of Affordable Housing Challenges Nationwide ArentFox Schiff LLP
Aug
19
2013
I Rent Office Space In A High Rise Building. Who Is Responsible, The Landlord Or The Tenant, For Making It Compliant With The Americans With Disabilities Act? McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Apr
21
2017
CFPB Sues Ocwen for Alleged Violations of Consumer Financial Laws Covington & Burling LLP
Apr
15
2011
New Texas Rule Creates Liabilities and Obligations for Operators of Inactive Oil and Gas Wells Bracewell LLP
Oct
1
2020
PFAS — What You Need to Know in Transactions Van Ness Feldman LLP
Jun
21
2019
SCOTUS Overrules “State Compensation” Ripeness Requirement for Takings Claims Robinson & Cole LLP
Apr
3
2024
Importance of Negotiating Assignment and Subletting Provisions in Health Care Leases Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Aug
29
2013
Seventh Circuit Reverses $400,000 Sanction Against Qui Tam Attorney For Recruiting Relators, And Holds That Case Not Barred By Prior Qui Tam Lawsuit Against Same Defendant Tycko & Zavareei LLP
May
12
2017
New Ruling on Hospital-Physician Real Estate/Leasing Compliance Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
 

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