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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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27
2012
Michigan Environmental Clean-Up "CSI" Report Barnes & Thornburg LLP
May
3
2021
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Nov
8
2019
Outside Business Exclusion Precludes Coverage Under a Professional Liability Policy Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Mar
13
2014
Inside the New York Budget Bill Part Four: Nexus McDermott Will & Emery
Apr
25
2012
Method for Tax-Deferred Real Estate Investments Not Patentable, Notwithstanding Computer Limitations McDermott Will & Emery
May
12
2021
COVID-19 Update: Decision Striking Down CDC Federal Eviction Moratorium Temporarily Stayed Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Nov
21
2019
Seventh Circuit Class Action Litigation | Fall 2019 Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
18
2015
Clean Power Plan, State Tax: Indian Nations Law Update - August 2015 Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
Mar
24
2014
Massachusetts Endangered Species Act Regulations Upheld as Valid Agency Rulemaking Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Apr
21
2012
Is Your Mortgage Lien Protected? Barnes & Thornburg LLP
May
20
2021
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Feb
21
2018
New HMDA Guide Issued by the FFIEC Ballard Spahr LLP
Dec
10
2019
Fall 2019 Arizona Case Law Affecting Commercial Real Estate and Lending (December 2019) Ryley Carlock & Applewhite, A Professional Corporation
Sep
5
2015
363 Sale Denied because Secured Creditor not Paid in Full from Proceeds Mintz
Apr
7
2014
Slippery When Wet: "Tax Floors" Keep a Tenant on Firm Financial Footing von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Mar
17
2023
The Silicon Valley Bank Failure: Implications on Commercial Leasing Winstead
Jun
3
2021
For Finance Lenders, The Times They Are A-Changing Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Dec
23
2019
This Land (Was) Your Land: Mass. Appeals Court Updates Law on Adverse Possession and Prescriptive Easements Pierce Atwood LLP
Sep
22
2015
State Lands Commission Land Exchanges Not Exempt from CEQA Review Absent a Title or Boundary Dispute; Actual Notice Doesn’t Satisfy CEQA Notice Requirements Under Public Resources Code Section 21177(e) Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Apr
15
2014
Five Key Issues for the Parties to a Sublease Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Mar
29
2023
I am a Volunteer, so I am Protected, Right?: Understanding Director and Officer Liability Insurance for Community Associations Ward and Smith, P.A.
Jun
8
2012
Getting the Deal Done – Cities Can Help! Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jun
16
2021
CFPB Issues Mortgage Servicing FAQs Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct
12
2015
Illinois Appellate Court Upholds Foreclosure Judgment Despite Discrepancies Between Copies of the Note Attached to Foreclosure Complaint and Submitted into Evidence Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Apr
25
2014
First Texas Fracking Case Results in Verdict for Plaintiffs Hunton Andrews Kurth
Apr
6
2023
Capital Gain Treatment Denied When Sale Contract Terminates Chuhak & Tecson, P.C.
Jun
29
2021
Biden Administration Continues Fair Lending Efforts as HUD Announces Proposal to Restore the Discriminatory Effects Rule Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Apr
13
2018
IRS Expands Remedial Action for Nonqualified Use of Tax-Advantaged Bonds Mintz
 

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