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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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Aug
21
2012
Streamlined Liquor Control Code aims to help brewpub licensing process Varnum LLP
Jun
5
2023
Wetlands No More? U.S. Supreme Court Limits Federal Regulation of Wetlands in Sackett v. EPA Decision Foley & Lardner LLP
Aug
25
2021
GRATS — Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts Wiggin and Dana LLP
Jan
17
2016
North Carolina Supreme Court Rejects Claims against Lender over Failed Real Estate Development Poyner Spruill LLP
Jun
19
2014
Land Use Treats: Judicial Treatment of Pennsylvania Landfills and Illinois Strip Clubs Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sep
17
2012
Expanded California Use Tax Collection Requirement for Retailers Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Jun
12
2023
Massachusetts SJC rules in favor of Hume Lake Christian Camp zoning appeal under the Dover Amendment Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Jul
23
2018
The Mortgage Controls: Mortgagors' Dispute Regarding Alleged "Excessive" and "Unreasonable" Property Inspection Fees Fails to State a Claim Under FDCPA Ballard Spahr LLP
Sep
7
2021
Public Improvement Districts Texas Legislative Update Winstead
Feb
6
2016
Sports Authority Looks to be the Next Big Tenant Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing Stark & Stark
Jun
30
2014
The Court of Appeals’ Dryden/Cooperstown Decision – Court Upholds The Sanctity of Local Zoning, But Does It Doom Fracking In New York? Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Sep
30
2012
Be Careful to Avoid Tax Penalties for Converting Ag Land into Other Use Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Jun
17
2023
Environmental Essentials Webinar Series – Sackett II/WOTUS IX: Implementation of the Supreme Court’s Interpretation of “Waters of the US” Under the Clean Water Act [Video] Bracewell LLP
Sep
21
2021
Mass. High Court: Three-Year Clock for Wetlands Protection Act Enforcement Actions Re-Starts With Every Sale of Property Pierce Atwood LLP
Mar
25
2020
Stay-At-Home and Safer At Home Orders Impose Restrictions on Residential Landlords and Rental Property Managers Davis|Kuelthau, s.c.
Jul
14
2014
Big Banks Argue that Shorter Limitations Period Should Apply to MBS (Mortgage Backed Securities) Claims Bilzin Sumberg
Jun
28
2023
Law of the Land - Real Estate Litigation Newsletter (June 28, 2023) Goulston & Storrs
Sep
21
2018
Opportunity Zones—Curb Your Enthusiasm (Maybe…) Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
Jul
23
2014
The Wisconsin Supreme Court Puts Judgment Creditors at Risk by Changing 150 Years of Law on How to Obtain a Priority Lien against a Judgment Debtor’s Personal Property Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Oct
6
2018
California Appellate Court Narrows the Scope of the Sham Guaranty Defense Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Oct
28
2021
The Road Ahead – Four (4) “Mile Markers” to Watch in the Year Ahead Stark & Stark
Mar
30
2016
British Home Stores Company Voluntary Arrangement: Move over Mary Portas, CVAs are Real Saviour of High Street Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Mar
30
2020
COVID-19 Update: Coronavirus-Related REMIC Considerations Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Aug
6
2014
N.C. Court of Appeals Reviews Commercial and Residential Summary Ejectment Cases Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Oct
15
2018
New York City Bill to Give Commercial Tenants More Power Over Lease Renewals Will Get Hearing Jackson Lewis P.C.
Nov
11
2021
New UK Rules Governing Unpaid Commercial Rent Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Apr
12
2016
Minefield of Surrenders and Assignments Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Dec
13
2012
Creating a Tax Incremental District to Spur Development von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
 

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