Lawyerly Lairs: Three Partners' Palatial Pads

Here’s the exterior of Stephen Kotran and Elizabeth Goldman’s Upper West Side townhouse:

The purchase was previously reported in the New York Observer, which has some yummy deets about Steve Kotran and Liz Goldman’s new home. After noting how Kotran stood up for Charney, Matt Chaban writes:

Kotran has been reward for his good karma with, among other things, a beautiful new five-story terra cotta brick townhouse at 318 West 78th Street. Located within the West End-Collegiate Historic District, the Romanesque Revival style home has a whopping 6,795 square feet, which include six bedrooms and five baths, as well as a huge library and an updated kitchen with a butler’s pantry.

The attorney purchased the home for $6.2 million with his wife Elizabeth Goldman, a law professor at Cardozo Law School. The sellers were banker Brian Wruble and Kathleen Bratton.

A sign that you’ve made it as a lawyer: when you’re buying real estate from a banker. Perhaps Wruble and Bratton found that 6,800 square feet just wasn’t enough for them.

Kotran, based on his conduct in L’Affaire Charney, has a soft spot for the gays. Our next partner, in the New York office of London-based Linklaters, goes one step farther: he is one of the gays….

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