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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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May
12
2014
Can the Town Make Me Change My Sign? Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Apr
2
2018
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Retains Most Real Estate Incentives Varnum LLP
Oct
15
2015
Illinois Arbitration Center's Failure To Provide Notice Allowed Court To Vacate Arbitration Default Judgment Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C.
May
2
2023
U.S. Executive Branch Update – May 2, 2023 Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jul
28
2021
To Meet Zoning Frontage Requirement, “Linear Feet” Need Not be in a Straight Line Pierce Atwood LLP
May
22
2014
When Disaster Strikes Re: Kentucky Spring Weather McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Apr
27
2018
Ninth Circuit Finds District Court Sharply Deviated from Existing Authority on CERCLA Cleanup Costs Between Military Contractor and U.S. Government When it Allocated 100 Percent of Liability to Military Contractor Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct
28
2015
California’s Secured Promissory Note Exemption Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
May
15
2023
Weekly IRS Roundup May 8 – May 12, 2023
Aug
8
2021
Withdrawal Liability – Real Property Presumed a Trade or Business Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jun
6
2014
Increased Density Mixed-Use Development the Future of Wynwood Bilzin Sumberg
Aug
21
2012
Streamlined Liquor Control Code aims to help brewpub licensing process Varnum LLP
Nov
18
2015
I Sued My Neighbor and Lost My Dock re: Riparian Rights Varnum LLP
May
30
2023
Mortgage Bankers Association Files Amici Brief in CFPB Constitutionality Case Katten
Aug
25
2021
GRATS — Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts Wiggin and Dana LLP
Jun
19
2014
Land Use Treats: Judicial Treatment of Pennsylvania Landfills and Illinois Strip Clubs Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jun
5
2018
Fair Employment Housing Commissions Publishes New National Origin Discrimination Regulations; Limits “English-Only” Rules and Expands Protections for Immigration Status Jackson Lewis P.C.
Sep
17
2012
Expanded California Use Tax Collection Requirement for Retailers Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Jun
9
2023
Waters of the United States No Longer Frozen in Time — Supreme Court Decision Narrows Federal Jurisdiction Over Wetlands Jones Walker LLP
Sep
7
2021
Public Improvement Districts Texas Legislative Update Winstead
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
Jun
21
2018
Retail, Restaurant and Hospitality Group News: Property Managers Lack Standing to Bring Eviction Actions on Behalf of Property Owners Murtha Cullina
Sep
30
2012
Be Careful to Avoid Tax Penalties for Converting Ag Land into Other Use Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Jun
14
2023
Hurricane Preparedness for Community Associations Varnum 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
Jan
21
2016
Thin Line Between Land Litigation and Land Use Controversies Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
 

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