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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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Mar
18
2020
Client Alert: Force Majeure Clauses and COVID-19: What Hotel Owners and Operators Need to Know Sherin and Lodgen LLP
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
17
2018
Blind Pool Fund V. Pledge Fund ArentFox Schiff LLP
Sep
30
2012
Be Careful to Avoid Tax Penalties for Converting Ag Land into Other Use Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Dec
23
2015
New Uncapping Exemption for Ladybird Transfers Varnum LLP
Sep
9
2021
(UK) Restrictions on Winding Up Petitions to Lift – But Not for All Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jul
14
2014
Big Banks Argue that Shorter Limitations Period Should Apply to MBS (Mortgage Backed Securities) Claims Bilzin Sumberg
Jan
17
2016
North Carolina Supreme Court Rejects Claims against Lender over Failed Real Estate Development Poyner Spruill LLP
Sep
22
2021
After the Storm: Rebuilding and Protecting Your Property Value Jones Walker LLP
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
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
Feb
6
2016
Sports Authority Looks to be the Next Big Tenant Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing Stark & Stark
Aug
6
2014
N.C. Court of Appeals Reviews Commercial and Residential Summary Ejectment Cases Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Nov
1
2021
Top 10 Western Region Commercial Real Estate Trends in Q4 2021 Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jul
11
2023
Global Banking Regulators Plan to Develop Short-Term Climate Scenarios Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Mar
31
2020
Poland: Unclear Rules of Temporary Expiry of Lease Rights and Obligations at Retail Facilities of More Than 2,000 m2 Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Sep
21
2018
Opportunity Zones—Curb Your Enthusiasm (Maybe…) Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
Dec
13
2012
Creating a Tax Incremental District to Spur Development von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Nov
16
2021
You Win Some, You Lose Some: The Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Landlords’ Free Speech Challenge to Harassment Laws and Reverses Dismissal of Landlords’ Contract Clause Challenge to Guaranty Law Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jul
19
2023
First Criminal Syndicated Conservation Easement Trial Begins this Week Polsinelli PC
Aug
22
2014
Wisconsin - Don’t Forget to Take the Real Estate Developer’s Rights as Collateral 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
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
Dec
3
2021
Under the Sea: Congress Amends OCSLA to Provide for Offshore CCS Bracewell LLP
Apr
7
2020
Lender Perspectives: UK Coronavirus Act 2020, Impact on LMA Real Estate Form Facility Agreement Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Sep
9
2014
Navigating Land Use and Land Development in North Carolina: Municipalities in North Carolina [VIDEO] 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.
Jan
7
2013
EPA Proposes Partial Disapproval of Wisconsin's Plan for Implementing the PM2.5 NAAQS and Sierra Club Files a Lawsuit to Force EPA Action Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
 

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