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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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4
2015
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2023
Boston Initiatives Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goulston & Storrs
Feb
12
2018
Saved By The En Banc: CFPB Appears Here To Stay K&L Gates
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14
2019
Real Property & Financial Services Update: Week Ending November 8, 2019 Carlton Fields
Mar
17
2014
The COAH Saga Continues - New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Aug
21
2015
Federal Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act Stark & Stark
Apr
3
2012
Cottage Planning: Dealing with Estate Taxes, Part 1 Varnum LLP
Mar
1
2023
5 Reasons Community Associations Need an Attorney That Specializes in Collections Stark & Stark
May
17
2021
Virgin Active Restructuring Plan approved in a disappointing week for landlords Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
26
2018
SEC Grants Section 3(c)(5)(C) Relief to Depositor of Mortgage Securitization Trusts Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Dec
2
2019
Can a Landlord be Forced to Accept a Surrender of a Lease? Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Mar
25
2014
What is Mine Might Not be Yours: Estate Planning Consideration for Blended Families Altro LLP
Sep
6
2015
Dot Your I’s and Cross Your Collateral: An Illinois Practitioner’s Guide to Drafting Loan Dragnet Clauses ArentFox Schiff LLP
Apr
24
2012
Seventh Circuit Decision May Spur Limited Revival of HAMP Claims Against Loan Servicers Much Shelist, P.C.
May
26
2021
Struggling Hotels Can Provide Turn-Down Service, Can't Be Turned Down for Subchapter V Bankruptcy Ward and Smith, P.A.
Dec
13
2019
NJDEP Releases Report on Sea-Level Rise in New Jersey Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Apr
9
2014
Significant Changes Made by Registrar of Contractors (ROC) to its Complaint and Hearing Process Dickinson Wright PLLC
Sep
26
2015
Determination of Clerk at Foreclosure Hearing is Binding in Subsequent Litigation Poyner Spruill LLP
May
21
2012
Adapting To Market Conditions: Joint-Venture Considerations For The Institutional Real Estate Investor And Its Legal Counsel Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
Mar
27
2023
Stripped and Outnumbered: Compromising Guarantee Claims in a CVA Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jun
8
2021
Law of the Land - Real Estate Litigation Newsletter Goulston & Storrs
Mar
27
2018
Landowners Fail to Show that Drainage falls under Utility Easement’s Scope von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Apr
16
2014
Miami Light Rail System May Become a Signature P3 Bilzin Sumberg
Oct
13
2015
One District Court Finds Limits to Express Certification re: False Claims Act McDermott Will & Emery
Jun
4
2012
How Can a State of Emergency Declaration in Florida Benefit Your Land Development Investment? Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Apr
18
2018
New York’s Response to Federal Tax Reform: Charitable Contributions Credit McDermott Will & Emery
Jan
13
2020
Appellate Court Holds Charter Cities Are Bound By State Housing Objectives, Signaling Erosion of Local Discretion Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
 

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