Construction & Real Estate

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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Apr
26
2011
 Lenders Taking Title by Foreclosure or Deed in Lieu: The Advantages of Obtaining an Owner’s Title Insurance Policy Poyner Spruill LLP
Apr
27
2011
 TOUSA III: The Secured Lenders Take the Lead! Bracewell LLP
Apr
29
2011
 EPA and Corps Issue Draft Guidance on Waterways and Wetlands That Fall Under Federal Jurisdiction as Part of Obama Administration’s Just Released Clean Water Framework Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
May
4
2011
 Unique Retail Considerations of Branch Bank Leasing Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
May
5
2011
 Office Leasing in 2011: Signs of Life in Commercial Real Estate Much Shelist, P.C.
May
10
2011
 How to Provide More Certainty in Financing Biomass Power Projects Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
May
11
2011
 Ohio’s Budget, As Recently Passed By The House, Contains Key Changes To Public Construction Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
May
11
2011
 Third Circuit Limits Continuing Nuisance Exception to Statute of Limitations (SOL) Greenberg Traurig, LLP
May
12
2011
 Corporate Protection and Negligence Claims in the Construction Industry Poyner Spruill LLP
May
12
2011
 1099-A Reporting Requirements May Apply to You Poyner Spruill LLP
May
13
2011
 Bill Allowing More Offshore Drilling Introduced to Congress Greenberg Traurig, LLP
May
14
2011
 Holyoke, Mass. Landlords Face Fines for Failing to Notify Tenants about Lead Paint U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
May
15
2011
 Building Code Lessons: In the Wake of the Quake Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS)
May
23
2011
 The Year 2010 In Review: Safety and Personal Injury Developments Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
24
2011
 Department of Energy Offers Conditional Commitment for Loan Guarantee to Support Solar Generation Project in Nevada U.S. Department of Energy
May
25
2011
 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Head Accused of Lying at House Committee Hearing Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS)
May
25
2011
 Prevailing Wage Laws: What Are They and How Are They Changing? Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
May
28
2011
 As Fannie, Freddie flounder, Six Top Execs Receive Handsome Rewards Center for Public Integrity
Jun
3
2011
 China’s NDRC Delegates Powers to Lower Levels to Approve Overseas Investment Projects Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Jun
7
2011
 Workplace Fatalities and OSHA Investigations - Questions & Concerns Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jun
9
2011
 Developers Must Pay Prevailing Wages for Privately Financed Public Infrastructure Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
10
2011
 U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Federal Preemption in Asbestos Suit Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Jun
13
2011
 CERCLA Updates Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jun
16
2011
 Court Affirms CEQA Does Not Require Cumulative Impact Analysis Where Project Makes No Contribution to Groundwater Impacts Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
17
2011
 More Teeth For The Tender Rule Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
20
2011
 Texas Legislature Permits Concealed Guns on Employers’ Property Bracewell LLP
Jun
20
2011
 Foreign Investors Poured $13.37 Billion Into U.S. Real Estate in 2010 Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jun
21
2011
 Taking a Bite Out of Bed Bug Litigation - A Strategic Plan May Be the Best Defense Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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