The Missouri Bar

Many Unhappy with Condo-Hotel Contracts

Investors in condo-hotels are suing developers, claiming they were misled about the return on their investments. Some are also unhappy about the contracts they signed for revenues. (Read more in the WSJ)

What rights do you have when it comes to contracts? What if you sign on the dotted line and immediately regret it? Or what if you didn't exactly get what you thought you were?

In this Law in Your Life podcast, attorney Mike Ferry talks contracts and your rights.

Law in Your Life #16: College Student Legal Issues

You send your kids off to college with high hopes about their grades and career advancement, but you don't think of legal trouble students sometimes face when they first get out on their own. This week, host Angela Wilson discusses typical legal troubles of college students with University of Missouri-Columbia legal services attorney Steve Concannon. (Internet Explorer users click play twice.)

While Concannon works specifically with students at the MU campus, MU Student Legal Services offers up booklets and other legal issues information - including landlord/tenant laws, drinking and driving, drugs, employment, credit and consumer protection laws - that apply to college students across the state

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Law in Your Life #13: Sales Contracts

Sales contracts are a part of everyday life, but what are your rights when you sign on the dotted line? Can you back out of certain agreements? Today host Angela Wilson talks to St. Louis attorney Mike Ferry about this important issue. (Internet Explorer users click play twice.)

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