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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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28
2015
Eighth Circuit Reverses Class Certification Where Class Members Not Commonly Injured by Contamination on Their Property Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jan
17
2020
Court Rules Against Trustee’s Right to a Jury Trial Where the Trustee Agreed To A Summary Proceeding Winstead
Jun
8
2012
Getting the Deal Done – Cities Can Help! Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mar
28
2018
Cities and Developers Must Prepare for Climate Change Now Mintz
Jul
1
2021
COVID-19 Update: Supreme Court Denies Request to Lift CDC’s Eviction Moratorium Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Apr
26
2023
Bed Bath & Beyond Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy In the United States Bankruptcy Court District of New Jersey Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Oct
22
2015
Poland Creates Borrowers’ Support Fund to Fill Its Consumer Bankruptcy Gap Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jul
19
2012
Michigan Court Authorizes Receiver Sale of Real Property Free and Clear of Redemption Rights Barnes & Thornburg LLP
May
8
2018
Release of 2017 HMDA Data Covington & Burling LLP
May
22
2023
Five Frequently Asked Questions About Divorce Property Division in Michigan Varnum LLP
May
15
2014
Proposed Rules Would Offer Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Status to Certain Solar Assets Mintz
Nov
10
2015
Tenancy by Entirety Not Defense to Mortgage Foreclosure Case When Both Spouses Signed Letter of Direction to Trustee of Land Trust Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered
Aug
2
2012
Bankruptcy Court Holds Michigan Does Not Recognize A General Common Law Landlord’s Lien on Personal Property of Tenant Varnum LLP
May
18
2018
Use of Transfer on Death (TOD) Deeds Broadened Under New Statute Davis|Kuelthau, s.c.
Aug
6
2021
A Return from the Edge? A New Policy Statement from the UK Government on Commercial Rent Debts Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jun
1
2023
Supreme Court Ends Protection for Most Wetlands In The U.S.—But Not In California Mintz
May
29
2014
Why Use an Exclusive Use Clause? McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Dec
3
2015
New Jersey Court May Force Sale of House Post-Divorce Stark & Stark
Aug
14
2012
Finance, Insolvency & Restructuring Alert - The Michigan Supreme Court Addresses the Priority of Receivership Expenses in the Context of a Mortgage Foreclosure by Advertisement Proceeding Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Aug
24
2021
South Carolina Ruling Gives Lenders Flexibility on When to Foreclose in Face of Borrower Litigation Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Jun
10
2023
Make-Whole Clauses: It's All About the Enforceability Question Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jun
16
2014
Purchase Money Security Interests - Value Limited Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Dec
18
2015
California Supreme Court Rejects Mandatory "Reverse CEQA" Analysis Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Sep
8
2012
Existing Cell Tower Leases are Gold Mines: How to Keep the Mine and Get the Gold Varnum LLP
Sep
7
2021
COVID-19 Update: New York Governor Signs New Moratorium Effective until January 15, 2022 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jun
23
2014
The Importance of Planning Joint Venture Exit Strategies Bilzin Sumberg
Jan
11
2016
CFPB Issues Letter on TRID Enforcement and Liability: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
16
2018
A New Opportunity for Deferring and Reducing Capital Gains While Making Attractive Investments in America’s Distressed Areas Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
 

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