Attorney Education for Modern Ownership and Governance Disputes
Napkin Litigation™ Series
An ongoing continuing legal education series developed and taught by Andrew M. Lieb, Esq., MPH, and presented through Lawline.The Napkin Litigation™ Series examines litigation issues arising from informal deals, defective governance, AI-generated contracts, undocumented ownership arrangements, investor conflicts, real estate ventures, and closely held business disputes. The series is designed for attorneys who advise, document, negotiate, manage, or litigate relationships where ownership, control, valuation, fiduciary duties, or exit rights may later become contested.
Featured On-Demand Course: Co-Ownership Disputes in Real Estate and Closely Held Businesses is now available on demand through Lawline. This flagship program explores ownership disputes arising from informal agreements, AI-generated contracts, governance failures, and closely held businesses.
What Is the Napkin Litigation™ Series?
The Napkin Litigation™ Series is an ongoing attorney education series developed by Andrew M. Lieb, Esq., MPH, to examine disputes that arise when business, real estate, investment, and ownership relationships are not documented for litigation reality. These matters often involve incomplete operating agreements, informal ownership promises, text messages, emails, AI-generated contracts, missing records, defective governance, disputed control, and broken exit expectations.
The series is designed to grow over time, with future programs addressing recurring litigation issues involving LLC ownership disputes, closely held corporations, partnerships, real estate co-ownership, investor disputes, fiduciary duties, books and records, valuation, buyouts, governance failures, and informal deal litigation.
Why This Series Matters
More clients are forming ventures, investing in businesses, buying real estate, promising equity, relying on templates, using AI-generated documents, and operating closely held companies without documentation that can withstand litigation pressure. When those relationships break down, attorneys are asked to reconstruct ownership, authority, duties, valuation, and economic rights from imperfect evidence.
Litigation Perspective
Learn how disputed documents, tax records, communications, governance gaps, and client conduct are evaluated after relationships break down.
Transactional Relevance
See how drafting choices, omitted provisions, incomplete records, and informal amendments can become litigation leverage.
Referral Issue Spotting
Recognize when a client's business problem has become a litigation problem requiring ownership, records, valuation, dissolution, partition, or fiduciary duty analysis.
Who Should Follow the Series
The Napkin Litigation™ Series is built for attorneys and advisors who need practical issue spotting around ownership, governance, control, valuation, fiduciary duties, investor rights, and exit disputes.
- Transactional attorneys
- M&A counsel
- Corporate attorneys
- Commercial real estate attorneys
- Trusts and estates attorneys
- Outside general counsel
- Commercial litigators
- Real estate litigators
- Family office counsel
- Private client advisors
- Attorneys for closely held businesses
- Attorneys for investors, developers, and operators
Current Napkin Litigation™ Series Programs
Napkin Litigation™: Co-Ownership Disputes in Real Estate and Closely Held Businesses
Litigating Informal Deals, AI-Generated Contracts, and Defective Governance
The featured on-demand program examines one of the most frequently litigated issues in privately held businesses and real estate ventures: disputes between co-owners when documentation fails to clearly define ownership, governance, control, valuation, or exit rights.
Attendees will examine practical case patterns involving real estate co-owners, closely held businesses, LLC membership interests, shareholder and partner exits, family ventures, development deals, books and records fights, dissolution pressure, valuation disputes, and defective governance.
This current featured program premiered live on Lawline and is now available on demand through Lawline.
Napkin Litigation™: Litigating LLC Ownership Claims
Scheduled to be presented live on Lawline on August 25, 2026 at 12:00 PM EDT. Registration link coming soon.
Attorney Feedback
Our featured Napkin Litigation™ program has earned a 99% attendee rating on Lawline, with attorneys praising its practical litigation lessons, transactional relevance, and real-world treatment of partner and small business conflicts.
Practical and Engaging
"This was by far the best CLE I've ever watched."
Transactional Value
"While I am a transactional lawyer, the content certainly applies to pre-dispute drafting and counseling."
Timely Material
"Excellent presentation and timely material."
About the Creator
The Napkin Litigation™ Series was developed by Andrew M. Lieb, Esq., MPH, Founder and Managing Partner of Lieb at Law, P.C.
Andrew is admitted to practice law in New York, Connecticut, and Colorado. Lieb at Law represents clients in New York and New Jersey and handles federal litigation involving business, commercial, employment, discrimination, and real estate disputes.
Andrew has taught thousands of attorneys, business owners, real estate professionals, and industry participants on legal risk, governance, compliance, fiduciary duties, employment law, fair housing, and litigation strategy.
Coming Next in the Napkin Litigation™ Series
As the series develops, future programs are expected to examine recurring educational themes rather than a fixed curriculum.
- LLC ownership disputes
- Closely held corporation disputes
- Partnership and joint venture disputes
- Real estate co-ownership litigation
- Books and records disputes
- Accounting actions
- Valuation and buyout litigation
- Fiduciary duty litigation
- Governance failures
- AI-generated contract disputes
- Informal deal litigation
Related Lieb at Law Resources
Attorneys following the Napkin Litigation™ Series can review related Lieb at Law resources on ownership, real estate, business, and commercial litigation issues.
Napkin Litigation™
Business litigation for disputes involving informal deals, defective documentation, and ownership relationships not prepared for litigation pressure.
Napkin Litigation™LLC Ownership Disputes
Disputed LLC membership interests, operating agreements, K-1s, capital contributions, books and records, buyouts, and dissolution.
LLC Ownership DisputesReal Estate Litigation
Ownership disputes, development deals, co-owner conflicts, contracts, title, partition actions, and real estate-related litigation.
Real Estate LitigationBusiness Disputes
Closely held business disputes, ownership conflicts, shareholder fights, partnership disputes, business divorce, and fiduciary duty claims.
Business DisputesCommercial Litigation
Commercial litigation involving contracts, fraud, misrepresentation, unfair competition, business torts, and governance disputes.
Commercial LitigationAndrew M. Lieb
Attorney profile for the creator and instructor of the Napkin Litigation™ Series.
Andrew M. LiebStart With the Featured On-Demand Course
Start with the featured on-demand course, Co-Ownership Disputes in Real Estate and Closely Held Businesses, and return for each new installment of the Napkin Litigation™ Series as future programs continue exploring ownership, governance, valuation, investor, and documentation disputes.