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Lawyerly Lairs: A Biglaw Name Partner’s New $8 Million Abode

Because his old $4 million apartment wasn't nice enough....

According to the listing, all of the other bedrooms feature excellent closet space, a luxury in Manhattan:

There’s also a staff bedroom — which I’m guessing is the “storage area” in the floor plan:

This is a great, gracious layout. Many prewar apartments — like the Zabels’ former home, arguably — have suboptimal floor plans, at least by modern standards. This layout, in contrast, has many appealing features that you typically see in newer homes: expansive entertaining areas that flow nicely into each other, a clear separation between the public and private areas, and big bedrooms.

If I were Bill Zabel, I’d host a summer associate event in this apartment, which is made for entertaining on a grand scale. At the start of the evening, I’d gather all the summers in the living room, give each of them a glass of champagne, raise my glass and say, “All this can be yours… if you will bow down and bill for me.”

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DBL square headshotDavid Lat is editor at large and founding editor of Above the Law, as well as the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].

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