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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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Jul
26
2010
County Approval of Conditional Siting Agreement Not A Project Approval Under CEQA Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
27
2010
Mitigation Fee Act May Not Require Specific Identification of New Facilities Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
27
2010
California Endangered Species Act Prohibits State Agencies From Taking Threatened and Endangered Species Without Permit Authority Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
28
2010
Tax-Exempt Financing Available to Private Entities in 2010 Bracewell LLP
Jul
28
2010
Breach of Contract May Lead to False Claims Liability on Public Works Contracts (CA) Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
29
2010
Analysis of the New Ohio Homeowner’s Association Law Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Jul
31
2010
One Way the Fed Could Have Mitigated the Housing Bubble? By Talking About It Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS)
Aug
2
2010
Independent Contractor Prevented From Suing Jobsite Owner Williams Kastner
Aug
3
2010
Forty Years in Commercial Real Estate: Weathering the Cycles of Boom, Bubble and Bust Much Shelist, P.C.
Aug
4
2010
Tolling Period for Development Approvals Extended Through 2011 Poyner Spruill LLP
Aug
4
2010
Board Sets Aside Union Fine of Whistleblower Williams Kastner
Aug
4
2010
Project Labor Agreement Regulations are Published Williams Kastner
Aug
10
2010
A Retreat From Hard Line OCI Decisions? The COFC Overturns a Controversial GAO Ruling Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
11
2010
Covenant v. Wauwatosa: A Taxing Decision for Outpatient Clinics von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Aug
12
2010
Under CERCLA, "Owner" Means Owner When Cleanup Costs Are Incurred, Not When Reimbursement Is Sought Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
13
2010
What are the Possible Legal Implications of the Passage of California’s Proposition 19? Donna Bader
Aug
14
2010
Three-Year Statute Of Limitations Applies To Inverse Condemnation Action Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
15
2010
Homeowner Associations and Members Not Necessarily Bound By Arbitration Provisions in CC&Rs or in Related Purchase Agreement Where Developer is Initial Declarant Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
16
2010
Coastal Commission's No Substantial Issue Determination Will Be Upheld Even If Project Technically Not Consistent With LCP Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
21
2010
The Transparency Monster Strikes Again: New Reporting Requirements For Executive Compensation And First-Tier Subcontract Awards Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
22
2010
Improper Payments Elimination Act Provides Opportunities For Contractors Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
24
2010
Ninth Circuit Rules that NPDES Permits Are Required for Logging Road Ditches and Culverts Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Aug
26
2010
Building Better Bridges - Engineering Firm that Consulted on Minneapolis I 35W Bridge that Collapsed in 2007 Agrees to Pay Out $52.4 Million. Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS)
Sep
2
2010
New York State Amends Power of Attorney Law Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Sep
12
2010
Ruling Continues Trend of Courts Strictly Construing Terms of Construction Contract Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Sep
15
2010
Survey of State Laws Regarding Foreclosure Related Issues: The State Law Impact Project - Part 3 Hunton Andrews Kurth
Sep
19
2010
Newly Constituted Board Holds that Bannering is Speech - National Labor Relations Act Williams Kastner
Oct
2
2010
Bedbugs Bite the Big Apple - City's Response. Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS)
 

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