• Recent cases involving landlord tenant disputes

• How recent court decisions have affected the practice of landlord tenant law

• Recent experiences in trying landlord tenant cases other than routine rent and possession cases

• Examples of how trial judges are applying the recent landlord tenant cases as well as the not so recent statutes that have been enacted dealing with evictions

• Some unusual issues that the practitioner may encounter in the course of representing a client in a landlord tenant matter as well as attorney client relations in a landlord tenant case

• Evolving law relating to the implied warranty of habitability and the current application of the implied warranty of habitability as both a defense and the basis of a cause of action

• Dispel some common myths about landlord tenant law so you can be prepared to rebut those myths

• Exculpatory clauses in leases and what clauses can be enforced and what clauses cannot be enforced

• Some actual trials involving the issues above and share the ‘Judge’s Findings of Fact and Conclusion of Law and Judgment’ in those cases

Speaker: Robert J. Wise, Attorney at Law, Kansas City