{"id":879809,"date":"2025-12-23T00:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/top-construction-legal-news-of-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:11:50","slug":"top-construction-legal-news-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/top-construction-legal-news-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Top construction legal news of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"skip-link-target\">\n<article class>\n<div>\n<p><span>An article from<\/span><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d12v9rtnomnebu.cloudfront.net\/logo\/printer_friendly\/constructiondive.jpg\" alt=\"site logo\">\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Construction Dive\u2019s award-winning Dotted Line legal column looked at the major topics trending for contractors this year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span><br \/>\n        Published Dec. 22, 2025<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/users\/jbousquin\/\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1b6lhn2ymmy1x.cloudfront.net\/journalist-headshots\/construction\/bousquin-joe-circle-150x150.png\" alt=\"Joe Bousquin's headshot\"><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class src=\"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/srismypwjz8yU_DvKLAydr3e7qxExNhysawuiQ9mXUA\/g:ce\/rs:fill:1200:675:1\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9Db25zdHJ1Y3Rpb24taWxsdXN0cmF0aW9uLWNlbnN1c19jb3N0cy0wMzIzMjAtRFRfMS5qcGc=.webp\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"   alt=\"dotted line\"><\/p>\n<figcaption>\n<p>        <span><br \/>\n            Danielle Ternes\/Construction Dive<br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>This year, contractors had reason to keep their lawyers on speed dial. A new presidential administration brought a flurry of executive orders, tariffs and a record-long government shutdown. All of that meant builders had a lot to track this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Fueled by the insights of some of the country\u2019s top construction lawyers, Construction Dive\u2019s Dotted Line column broke down the industry\u2019s biggest concerns to help readers understand how these topics would affect their businesses. Read on for tips on how to conduct a DEI audit, what\u2019s important in data center contracts and why artificial intelligence (still) can\u2019t steal your attorney\u2019s job. Consider yourself served for construction\u2019s top legal questions of 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<ul id=\"cgnp_links\">\n<li id=\"cgnp-item-738395\">\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"cgnp-item-740768\">\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"cgnp-item-743346\">\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"cgnp-item-746485\">\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"cgnp-item-748863\">\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"cgnp-item-750953\">\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"cgnp-item-756112\">\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"cgnp-item-758534\">\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"cgnp-item-761391\">\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"cgnp-item-803961\">\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"cgnp-item-806320\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/top-construction-legal-issues-2025\/808533\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Joe Bousquin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article from Construction Dive\u2019s award-winning Dotted Line legal column looked at the major topics trending for contractors this year. Published Dec. 22, 2025 Danielle Ternes\/Construction Dive This year, contractors had reason to keep their lawyers on speed dial. A new presidential administration brought a flurry of executive orders, tariffs and a record-long government shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":879810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2808,22587],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-879809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-construction","8":"category-legal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}