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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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Aug
19
2019
EPA Issues Updated Guidance on “Common Elements” of Superfund Innocent Landowner Defenses Beveridge & Diamond PC
Dec
30
2013
California Employers: What You Need to Know for 2014 – Everything Else Faegre Drinker
Nov
4
2022
FDIC Chair Speaks on Unbanked and Underbanked Survey Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Nov
22
2011
EPA Proposes Changes to Underground Storage Tank Regulations Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Oct
11
2017
Playground Permanently Dedicated and Used As a Public Park Earns Massachusetts Constitutional Protections of Article 97 Beveridge & Diamond PC
Jan
15
2021
Are Tenant-Landlord Disputes Arbitrable? Supreme Court of India Overturns its Own Judgement  Nishith Desai Associates
Aug
23
2019
Treatment Of Models Under HUD's Proposed Disparate Impact Rule: Our Thoughts Ballard Spahr LLP
Jun
27
2024
Can a Person Ever Establish Zoning Standing by Alleging Diminution in Property Value? The Appeals Court Whispers the Answer Pierce Atwood LLP
Jan
14
2014
Kiosk Licenses — Open Air Freedom? von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Dec
1
2022
ESG Opportunities for Distressed Real Estate Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Dec
28
2011
Payoff Statements and Short-Pay Statements Poyner Spruill LLP
May
27
2015
Breaking Down the New Jersey Supreme Court Ruling on Affordable Housing – [VIDEO] Stark & Stark
Feb
8
2021
Real Estate Debt and the UK Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 – The Moratorium Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jan
30
2014
Citing To Precedent, Nevada Federal Court Rejects FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act) Tip Claim Asserted By Workers Receiving Minimum Wage Jackson Lewis P.C.
Dec
23
2022
Land Court Lacks Jurisdiction over Administrative Licensing Related to Zoning Appeal Beveridge & Diamond PC
Jun
10
2015
Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Workgroup Recommends Legislation to Support Urban Livestock Operations Varnum LLP
Feb
18
2021
Delaware Court of Chancery Finds Oral Agreement to Form a Joint Venture Enforceable K&L Gates
Sep
20
2019
UPDATE: Mass. High Court Takes Plaintiff Out of Game, Upholds Boston’s Transfer to Red Sox of Easement Rights Next to Fenway Park Pierce Atwood LLP
Jul
18
2024
Illinois Appellate Decisions Offer Guidance for Claims Against Real Estate Professionals Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Jan
5
2023
2022 CEQA Legislative Recap Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mar
1
2012
Tax-Exempt Financing Opportunity for Private Sector Borrowers (Hurricane Ike Bonds) Bracewell LLP
Jun
24
2015
North Carolina General Assembly Is Actively Revisiting Riparian Buffer Rules Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Feb
22
2014
Must a Retail Business Allow an Individual to use its Property to Solicit Signatures for Elective Office? Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Jan
18
2023
Massachusetts Court Clarifies Recently Enacted Bond Provision in Zoning and Comprehensive Permit Appeals Beveridge & Diamond PC
Mar
15
2012
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - NJDEP Rule Provides Relief from Environmental Regulatory Requirements Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Jul
7
2015
Searching for the Heart of the Doctrine of Vested Rights? N.C. Assoc. of Educators v. State of North Carolina Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Oct
10
2019
Treasury Identifies Oil and Gas, Petrochemical, Maritime, Financial Services, and Real Estate as CFIUS Focus Areas Jones Walker LLP
Feb
2
2023
CFPB Updates Mortgage Servicing Exam Procedures Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
 

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