KKL won an important victory in the First Department of the New York Appellate Division in connection with its representation of a branch of the Sol Goldman family in ongoing litigation in the Commercial Division concerning the value and management of the Goldman family’s multi-billion-dollar New York real estate empire.
KKL appealed from a Supreme Court order that granted defendants’ motion to compel the production of its clients’ attorney-client privileged materials. The trial court held that KKL’s clients’ production of non-privileged transcript-style notes of a conference call concerning the appraisal of the Goldman family’s real estate business had effected a broad subject matter waiver over related privileged materials.
On March 19, 2026, the First Department reversed. The appellate court held that the transcript-style notes of the conference call were not privileged material or attorney work product and, as a result, the production of the transcript-style notes in discovery did not effectuate a broad subject matter waiver over related privileged materials.
KKL attorneys Daniel Noble and Ross Gitlin authored the briefs in the First Department with the able assistance of KKL Analyst Julia Stahlman.
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