Lawyerly Lairs: Boies's BargainThe legendary litigator snaps up an $8 million apartment.

In between Christmas and New Year’s, while most of us were stuffing our faces, celebrated litigator David Boies was stuffing his own stocking — with a magnificent New York apartment. Last year was a good one for Boies Schiller associates, at least based on their bonuses. And it probably was a good one for their boss, at least based on his latest real estate purchase.

There’s no need for Boies to feel guilty, though, since it seems he got a bargain. From Bloomberg:

David Boies, the antitrust lawyer who took on Microsoft Corp. and represented Al Gore in the contested U.S. presidential election of 2000, bought a seven room apartment overlooking New York’s Central Park for $7.75 million after the price was reduced by more than 20 percent.

Boies, chairman and founder of New York-based law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, purchased a two-bedroom unit at the Sherry-Netherland hotel on Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, according to city property records. The original asking price was $9.95 million, according to listing service StreetEasy.com.

More details, plus photos of the fabulous pad, after the jump.

Boies’s new condominium is on the 35th floor of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Because the apartment is housed in a hotel, it boasts this nifty perk:

Since this is a Full Service Hotel you will recieve FULL service Concierge in addition to White Glove Manned elevators, twice daily Maid, laundry service, linen, barber and beauty shop, fitness center, Cipriani’s Restaurant and others. The Concierge will truly manage your home, make reservations, take your phone calls, provide you with the most exceptional service you can imagine.

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Sounds great. Do they do document review?

This kind of service doesn’t come cheap, though. Monthly maintenance charges on the unit total $18,160 a month — larger than many a millionaire’s mortgage payment.

Let’s look at some pretty pictures. Hopefully David Boies likes the color green:

Check out that sculpture in the left-hand corner. Was it the one from the Heller art auction?

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Is this 21st-century New York, or 18th-century Versailles?

The current interior decor of the apartment isn’t to our liking. Of course, we suspect that Boies will overhaul the place.

Anyway, who cares about the wallpaper? Perhaps the best feature of the apartment is what the listing describes as “heart pounding, breathtaking panoramic views wrapping around New York’s magnificent Central Park and all of Manhattan. The North Side of the home has double corner airplane exposures of Central Park, the skyline and beyond from the Living Room, Dining Room and Kitchen.”

Indeed. This is the view in winter; imagine what it must look like in the spring or fall:

Congratulations on your new digs, Mr. Boies. Perhaps you can host a summer associate event there later this year. If an SA ends up hurling all over the hand-painted, stenciled floor, the Sherry-Netherland hotel staff will clean up the mess!

P.S. This isn’t Boies’s first real estate purchase for 2009. A few weeks earlier, he paid much less — a shade under $400,000 — for a two-bedroom, two-bath condo in Las Vegas.

Boies Buys $7.8 Million Manhattan Apartment After Cut [Bloomberg]
David Boies Settles on the Sherry-Netherland [Cityfile]
Fifth Avenue And East 59th Street [William B. May]