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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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2020
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22
2016
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Aug
8
2019
CFPB Seeks Comment on Replacing Temporary GSE Patch Under Ability-to-Repay Rule Ballard Spahr LLP
Jun
12
2013
Michigan Supreme Court Rules No Dock Access Easement Varnum LLP
Jul
4
2010
The California Court Of Appeal Narrowly Interprets The Perata Mortgage Relief Act Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jan
8
2021
Can Our Community Association Still Hold its Annual Meeting? Ward and Smith, P.A.
Jan
19
2017
Miami-Dade County Commission Approves Incentive-Driven Workforce Housing Ordinance Bilzin Sumberg
Aug
20
2019
Fair Housing Act Meets RLUIPA in Georgia Robinson & Cole LLP
Jun
19
2013
Bright Lights Not a Significant Impact; Lack of Parking May Be Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Nov
12
2014
Commercial Landlord Citing Lease Terms to Prevent Stores from Closing on Thanksgiving Day Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Feb
6
2017
The CFPB's Prospect RESPA Consent Orders: Eight Key Takeaways Foley & Lardner LLP
Aug
28
2019
Indian Nations Law Update - August 2019 Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
Jun
27
2013
U.S. Supreme Court Limits Governmental Power to Impose Conditions on New Development Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Nov
20
2014
Seventh Circuit: Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Challenge Tax Exemption for Ministerial Rental Allowances McDermott Will & Emery
Nov
11
2022
Superior Court Clarifies What It Means to Have an Easement by Necessity Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky
Sep
6
2019
Ley de Zonificación del Condado de Miami-Dade: Ordenanza mínima obligatoria de estacionamiento de vehículos eléctricos aprobada Bilzin Sumberg
Dec
5
2014
Daubert Analysis at the Class Certification Stage IMS Legal Strategies
Oct
23
2010
Governor Schwarzenegger Signs Two Bills Providing Moderate CEQA -California Environmental Quality Act Improvements Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Dec
5
2022
Market Conditions Among Factors Adding Variability to Potential California Offshore Lease Outcomes Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Feb
25
2021
Legal Industry News February 2021: Law Firm Awards, Legal and Professional Services Moves and Recognition The National Law Review / The National Law Forum LLC
Mar
7
2017
Oportunidad de extender permisos y órdenes de desarrollo urbano durante casi 16 meses Bilzin Sumberg
Sep
25
2019
How to Know You Have the Right Transition Attorney for Your Community Association Stark & Stark
Dec
13
2014
Ogden-Rooney Process Conveying State Lands: “There you go Again” Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Jan
16
2011
Court Invalidates EIR's Use of a Baseline Predicated On Future, Post-Approval Conditions For Analysis of Project's Impacts - Sunnyvale West Neighborhood Assn. v. City of Sunnyvale City Council, No. H035135 (6th Dist., December 16, 2010) Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Dec
29
2022
FHA Extends Partial Waiver of Face-to-Face Meeting Requirement Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Mar
8
2021
It’s Time to (Carefully) Secure that Guaranty Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mar
18
2017
UK Government Issues Guidance on Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards for Leased Property Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jul
26
2013
Pennsylvania Enacts Tax Law Changes Faegre Drinker
 

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