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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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2017
Zoning-Immune Government Building Retains Its Protected Status Upon Transfer to Private Party Beveridge & Diamond PC
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16
2020
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27
2019
‘Coyotes’ on the Loose at Utah Construction Sites May Be Trouble for Contractors Jackson Lewis P.C.
Mar
29
2020
‘Fitness for Purpose’ and Conflicting Obligations in Offshore Wind Projects K&L Gates
Sep
4
2014
‘Major Issues’ Affect Cal/OSHA’s Mission Capability, Federal OSHA Says Jackson Lewis P.C.
Oct
23
2014
‘Tis The Season To Think About Your Retail Lease McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Dec
11
2014
“Additional Insured”: Are You Really Covered? Much Shelist, P.C.
Jul
24
2013
“Automatic Variance” Bill For Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Base Elevations Passes New Jersey Legislature Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Feb
16
2018
“Avoid Groundhog Day – Get An Emergency Response Plan In Place!” Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Nov
26
2010
“Beneficial Use” of Coal Ash In Question As EPA Mulls Regulation Center for Public Integrity
Mar
27
2020
“Essential” and “Safe” Construction Services During COVID-19 Outbreak Pierce Atwood LLP
Oct
6
2022
“Fair Value” and “Fair Value to the Obligor”: The Mysteries of TIA Section 314(d) Under the Utility Mortgage Bond Indenture Bracewell LLP
Mar
30
2018
“Frivolous” Town Complaint Results in Attorney’s Fees Award for Affordable Housing Developer Beveridge & Diamond PC
Dec
21
2023
“Frustration of Purpose" Defense Still Frustrating for Commercial Tenants Goulston & Storrs
May
12
2017
“Getting To” the Root of the Problem: Insurance Coverage for “Get-To” or “Rip-and-Tear” Damages Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Apr
13
2021
“Hardening" Market for Professional Indemnity Insurance K&L Gates
Feb
21
2019
“If It Isn’t Broken…”: A Practical Guide To The Effective Use Of Standard Forms Of Contract K&L Gates
Dec
18
2014
“Is this the airport, Clark?”: Home Owner's Associations and Holiday Decorations McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Mar
6
2014
“I’m Keeping It”: Kentucky Law on Residential Security Deposits McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Dec
3
2014
“Let There Be Light” Religious Institutions and Green Energy Part 2 of 2 Part Series Lewis Roca Rothgerber LLP
May
8
2014
“Policy-Setting” Florida Resolution Requires County Infrastructure Projects to Consider Potential Impacts of Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge During All Project Phases Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Sep
14
2012
“Slam Dunk” Liability Defense Does Not Abrogate Duty to Defend Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Oct
31
2013
“So You’re Saying There’s A Chance…”: Yellowstone Injunctions Alive and Well in the New York Commercial Division Re: Landlord Tenant Issues Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Apr
25
2014
“Tiny Houses:” A Panacea For Social And Environmental Ills? Bilzin Sumberg
Oct
14
2015
“We Mean It, Maaannnn”—New Proposed Regulation Seeks to Encourage Higher-Quality Proposals by Boosting Enforcement of Five-Bidder Limit in Two-Phase Procurements for High-Value Construction Contracts Covington & Burling LLP
Apr
24
2012
“What Do You Mean That I Can’t Foreclose My Mortgage and Sue the Guarantor at the Same Time? Since When?”: Finance, Insolvency & Restructuring Alert Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jul
30
2013
…And That’s Why I Should Have Let My Ex-Spouse Keep the House Varnum LLP
 

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