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Litman v. Goldberg, Index No. 524343/2025 (NY Sup. Ct., Kings County)

Scott Woller, plaintiff's counsel · Prepared 2026-04-29

Read this first — five framing rules

Before any search, before any document mark — these five rules govern how every exhibit gets framed. They've been tested against a year of prior work and protect against framing errors that have already cost the case time on this record:

  1. Identity, not accounting. Every claim is commercial exploitation of name/identity under NY Civil Rights Law §§ 50-51. Not breach. Not accounting fraud. Frame every exhibit as a publication / use of name.
  2. Publication, not signature. The harm is Goldberg-caused publication of Plaintiff's name on the patent face / INID (74) field. Signature questions are downstream willfulness.
  3. Volume, not dollars. Lead with the day-by-day pattern of identity uses to clients. Drumbeat proves systematic exploitation. Dollars are the consequence.
  4. Royalty, not commission. The 20% is a royalty — the arbitrator's exact words: "payment for the privilege of servicing the lucrative client base." Never call it a commission.
  5. Deferred payment, not back pay. Unpaid 20% is deferred payment for the Practice. Not back-pay. Not wages. That framing is wrong, repeatedly.

(Source memory: feedback_identity_framing.md, feedback_publication_framing.md, feedback_volume_pattern_framing.md, feedback_royalty_not_commission.md, feedback_deferred_payment_not_back_pay.md.)

Three Elements of § 50-51 you're proving

Element What proves it (anchor exhibit)
Commercial use of Plaintiff's name The 12 post-SOL face-page patents (Ex. A-1 → A-12); the 688 USPTO-to-both emails; the 4,374 Martha Long → ME-client emails; the LLO VA SCC filing
Without consent Plaintiff's 4 written non-consent emails (4/22/21, 4/30/21, 5/1/23, 6/24/25); Goldberg's 2/26/26 sworn admission limiting his theory to the Combination Agreements (which contain no name-use clause); the disability-incapacity argument
Within New York reach NGM serves NY clients; KFU/KSU/KISR patent filings flow through USPTO publications received and viewed in NY; the 4patent.com domain reaches NY users; the LLO VA SCC entity registered to do business in VA-DC-NY territory

Day-1 setup — 10 binders to create in /review/

In the My Binders section of the left sidebar, create exactly these 10 binders. They map to the case theory and let you tag rows once and reuse the tags across the litigation.

# Binder name What goes here
1 Ex A — Face-Page 12 The 12 post-SOL Litman face-page patents (Bates LITMAN000012, 023, 033, 043, 054, 066, 075, 086, 113, 116, 129, 139)
2 Ex B — USPTO-to-both The 688 post-SOL USPTO emails to both Goldberg and Plaintiff (anchor: LITMAN049568, LITMAN028081)
3 KFU drumbeat Martha Long → KFU emails using Plaintiff's name (memory says ~14,033 KFU emails total, dominantly pre-SOL → willfulness)
4 KSU drumbeat The 2,727 KSU emails post-SOL with Plaintiff in body/signature (peak 112/week)
5 Goldberg personal acts Goldberg-signed POAs (16), Goldberg-personally-signed PTOL-85B (US 12,083,156 + 12,180,171), Goldberg-authored 12/30/22 KSU status doc, Goldberg-personally-run 2/17/26 AR Report
6 Spoliation events 51-event chronology — 7/18/25 email cutoff, 7/22/25 Freedom Bank close, 7/8/25 KSU sweep, 5/1/25 CN-37833 name removal, the 133-day zero-Goldberg gap, etc.
7 Consent-defense rebuttal The 4 Litman non-consent emails; the 4/22/21 Goldberg admission ("the Agreement does not mention the trademark rights"); the disability evidence; the Combination Agreement OCR (no name-use provision)
8 Damages anchor The verified $2,108,387 / $2,412,428 anchor docs; the new $2,335,675.86 single-figure anchor; the 12/30/22 KSU $266,230 paid-but-on-hold subset; the $694,478.67 wire 12/29/22; the 10/8/25 $135,947.69 wire
9 Trademark track The 245 TM dockets, 16+ §8/9/15 declarations under Plaintiff's USPTO Reg. 30,868, the LLO VA SCC filing, federal TM Reg. 1,861,297, the 7/24/25 Hashtag Sports C&D ("Richard C. Litman and Howard W. Kline")
10 Withhold-Privileged Plaintiff's communications with Scott Woller; settlement communications under CPLR 4547; spousal communications (CPLR 4502(b)); attorney work product (CPLR 3101(c))

Click + next to "My Binders" in the sidebar; type the name; press Enter. Right-click any row → "Add to..." menu shows your binders.

The search now indexes inside attachment PDFs/images via Apple Vision OCR plus the metadata/preview that was previously the ceiling. Each query below is a copy-paste, one-shot retrieval. Expected hit counts are calibrated against the post-SOL priority subset and the 3,130 documents.

# Query What you're hunting Expected ≈ hits
1 Customer Number 37833 USPTO emails using the firm's customer number — the 688 post-SOL USPTO-to-both pattern 1,860 (688 post-SOL)
2 responsible RL or Responsible RL Internal AR / billing system entries still attributing the matter to Plaintiff post-SOL a few dozen
3 Correspondence Address: Richard C. Litman The body verbatim that USPTO emails recite — federal-government attestation 100s
4 33056.80 The Ex. A-12 anchor docket — Goldberg listed it 12/30/22; published 1/14/25 with Plaintiff face-page ~30
5 33150.41U or 33170.94A Two of the 12 face-page election dockets — only findable now thanks to OCR 13 + 11
6 Status of Pending Work for by King Saud University Should find email forwards or follow-ups referencing the 12/30/22 Goldberg-authored doc a handful
7 our attorney (in Subject scope: All) Martha Long's "our attorney" client emails — NGM staff publicly designating Plaintiff as "our" attorney post-termination dozens
8 Of Counsel (scope: All) The professional liability insurance application chain (7/6/2021 listing Plaintiff as "Of Counsel") + any other "Of Counsel" representations ~20-50
9 Freedom Bank The undisclosed third trust account — closure timeline, transfer-out wire 36 (was 15 before OCR)
10 Goldtree The related-party rent stream — $36,601/mo to Goldtree Realty / A2Z IP a few
11 expired AND RL Write-offs flagged with Litman's responsible designation dozens
12 694,478.67 or 694,478 The disputed cumulative-balance wire 12/29/2022 ~20
13 135,947.69 The 10/8/2025 Fidelity quarterly true-up a handful
14 Plaintiff's name (scope: Content) Internal admissions or counsel-side discussions — could surface privileged-but-relevant items varies
15 assignment AND Customer Number 37833 Assignment recordings — Goldberg-as-submitter pattern dozens
16 Imidazolium ionic liquids The Ex. A-12 patent's invention title — should retrieve the 12/30/22 Goldberg doc + the 1/14/25 USPTO eGrant + the patent itself the chain
17 1,861,297 Federal TM Reg. for "LITMAN LAW OFFICES, LTD." ~5
18 02437754 or Litman Law Offices, Ltd. VA SCC entity ID for the LLO double appropriation a few
19 expiring (filter Year=2025) The Q4 2025 AR "expiring" tag pattern (silent removal-from-tracking) dozens
20 Hashtag Sports The 7/24/25 C&D signed by both Plaintiff and Kline — latest dated name use 1

After each search, on the right detail pane, click any row → the Extracted Content section now shows the search hit highlighted in context (±100 chars).

Top-20 Hot Docs to mark first

Right-click any row → "Flag as Hot." This puts an orange pin on the left edge so you can re-find them with the Hot filter.

These are the ones I would mark Hot first based on what we've found:

  1. LITMAN049568 — 1/14/2025 USPTO eGrant Notification to both attorneys, anchored to Ex. A-12 (US 12,194,434)
  2. LITMAN028081 — 6/25/2024 USPTO eGrant Notification (pre-SOL companion, willfulness anchor)
  3. LITMAN201962 — Martha Long's 7/22/2024 KSU Office Action Notification (sample of 4,374 client emails)
  4. LITMAN272887/272889/272893 — Goldberg-personally-sent 7/22-23/2022 KSU "Next Steps" emails CCing Plaintiff
  5. LITMAN250070-250095 — late-July 2020 KSU Trust + Payment thread with Plaintiff CC'd (pre-SOL course-of-conduct)
  6. LITMAN209485 — Goldberg-authored 12/20/2023 KFU "our attorney" email (P0 willfulness)
  7. LITMAN267104 — 6/11/2024 UAEU "one of our attorneys" email (P0 willfulness)
  8. LITMAN000012, 023, 033, 043, 054, 066, 075, 086, 113, 116, 129, 139 — the 12 face-page patents (Ex. A-1 through A-12). Mark all 12 Hot in one pass; they're already in the production folder
  9. LITMAN000351-358 series — line-74-annotated companion patents (visual evidence)
  10. LITMAN218858 — Bates with the 5/15/2020 + 6/10/2020 trust-rent JBG-signed entries (the $36,601/mo Goldtree pipeline)
  11. LITMAN004080 — Goldtree + A2Z IP membership disclosure (Goldberg + Meyer + Nath as members)
  12. ND0000058048 → ND0000069257 — the 5/1/2025 12:43 PM CN-37833 customer-number Litman name removal (before/after Bates pair)
  13. ND0000071721 — 7/22/2025 Freedom Bank close-account wire memo ("NGM Bank to Bank transfer Close Account") — spoliation centerpiece
  14. ND0000263559 — 2/9/2024 Litman written demand to remove his name from Freedom Bank account
  15. ND0000263413 + ND0000263415 — Plaintiff's October 2023 quarterly true-up demand and Goldberg's reply ("I will have this money wired to you right away")
  16. ND0000270242 — 4/30/2021 Litman trademark reservation: "The assignment of the LITMAN LAW OFFICES, LTD. mark does not include the right to use my name separate and apart from the mark."
  17. The 16 POAs in production folder (Bates LITMAN000361-LITMAN000513) — all Goldberg-signed (defeats his ¶33 denial that he "caused" the use)
  18. The 12/30/2022 Goldberg-authored "Status of KSU Cases" doc (evidence/uncle_supplied/Status_of_KSU_Cases_2022-12-30_Goldberg_authored.docx) — earliest Goldberg-authored supervision artifact
  19. The 2/17/2026 AR Report (evidence/AR_Report_202602_RL.xlsx) — Goldberg-personally-requested, surfaces $1,285,703.04 still under "Responsible RL" 19 mo post-SOL
  20. The 7/28/2025 LLO VA SCC Annual Report (evidence/VA_SCC_LLO_Annual_Report_2025_filed_2025-07-28.pdf) — Goldberg sworn under VA misdemeanor liability as OWNER

Decision-marking pass — first-cut logic

Use the dropdown in each row's detail pane (or the right-click menu, or keyboard shortcuts: P / R / W / N / H / V).

Mark Produce (P): Anything in binders 1–9 above (face-page patents, USPTO-to-both, Martha Long client emails, Goldberg personal acts, spoliation events, consent rebuttal, damages anchor, TM track). All ~5,300 post-SOL acts are responsive — produce them all. The volume is the case.

Mark Produce w/ Redactions (R): Any row that contains a third-party PII (SSN, account number, etc.) but is otherwise responsive. Use the Redaction Notes field to spell out what to redact.

Mark Withhold-Privileged (W): Communications between Plaintiff and Scott Woller (attorney-client, CPLR 4503); communications labeled "settlement" or covered by CPLR 4547; spousal communications (CPLR 4502(b)); your own work product (CPLR 3101(c)). Pick a Privilege Basis from the dropdown so the privilege log auto-populates.

Mark Withhold-Non-Responsive (N): Personal emails not bearing on case theory (LinkedIn notifications, news subscriptions, etc.). The corpus has thousands of these — bulk-mark via filter (e.g., from = linkedin.com, then "Bulk... Withhold-Non-Responsive").

Mark Hold (H): Any item where you want a second-pass before deciding. Date-restricted items (post-suit communications) go here pending privilege analysis.

Mark Needs 2nd Review (V): Items that need Plaintiff's input — e.g., "is this a settlement communication or a regular business email?" Plaintiff can sort the V-flagged items in his next session.

What the right detail pane shows for each row (now with attachment-content)

When you click any row:

  1. Metadata — From, To, CC, Subject, Date, Attachments, Tags, Source, Native file path
  2. Body Preview — first 800 chars of email body (the Concordance ceiling for emails; full body for documents)
  3. Extracted Content — new as of 4/29/2026 — the OCR'd / extracted text from the underlying PDF/image/document. The search hit is highlighted in context (±100 chars). For documents this is the full extracted content (3,130 docs covered via Apple Vision).
  4. Inline Viewer — embedded PDF/image preview when a native file exists
  5. Edit Form — Decision dropdown, Hot toggle, Privilege Basis, Exhibit #, Redaction Notes, Reviewer Notes
  6. Binders — current binder memberships + dropdown to add/remove

Day-1 ideal session plan (≈2 hours)

If you have two hours today, run this exact sequence:

Time What Outcome
0:00 – 0:05 Click "Reviewer" in header, enter your initials. Every tag stamped with your name + date.
0:05 – 0:15 Create the 10 binders listed above. Structure ready.
0:15 – 0:35 Run searches #1, #4, #6, #16 (Customer Number 37833, 33056.80, KSU status doc, Imidazolium ionic liquids). For each, click into the top 3-5 hits, mark Hot, Add to "Ex A — Face-Page 12" or "Ex B — USPTO-to-both" or "Goldberg personal acts" as appropriate. The case's tightest single-day three-channel chain (Ex A-12 / Ex B-4 / Ex B-12) populated.
0:35 – 0:55 Run searches #2, #3, #11, #12 (responsible RL, Correspondence Address: Richard C. Litman, expired RL, 694,478.67). Add hits to "Goldberg personal acts" or "Damages anchor". Internal-attribution and damages backbones populated.
0:55 – 1:20 Run searches #9, #10, #17, #18, #20 (Freedom Bank, Goldtree, 1,861,297, 02437754, Hashtag Sports). Spoliation + LLO double appropriation + latest dated name use populated.
1:20 – 1:40 Run search #7 (our attorney). Bulk-add all hits to "KFU drumbeat" or "KSU drumbeat" using the "+ Binder" toolbar button after filtering. Drumbeat exhibit set populated.
1:40 – 2:00 Open the Dashboard tab. Confirm the Hot count + binder counts + decision counts look right. Backup Tags (header button) — downloads JSON. Save it to uncle_inbox/from_lawyer/scott_review_state_2026-04-29.json so the state survives across machines. Persisted state.

After 2 hours you'll have ~50-100 hot docs, 10 populated binders, and a JSON backup. That's the foundation.

What not to do

Cross-references (where to read more)

When you find something Plaintiff should see

Drop a one-line note in uncle_inbox/notes_for_michael/scott_findings_<date>.md and Plaintiff or I will route it. Or for time-sensitive items, mark them in the "Hot" + "Hold" combination — Plaintiff and I scan that intersection daily.

If you need a search query that doesn't exist yet, ask in the same channel — I can build a custom filter or a new memo in 5-30 minutes depending on scope.

Welcome to the tool. The more aggressively you push on it, the better it gets.