Lawyerly Lairs: Latham Partner Gives His Wife a Fabulous Paris Pad for Her Birthday

Lawyerly Lairs: Latham Partner Gives His Wife a Fabulous Paris Pad for Her Birthday

Earlier this year, Latham & Watkins laid off some 400 employees (190 associates and 250 staff). This caused many to wonder about how tough times were getting at Latham.

Well, don't shed tears for LW partners just yet. From the New York Times:

If a tourist passing along the Rue du Cloître Notre-Dame just looks up, it is not hard to glimpse, through the open windows above, the rich colors of old master paintings that have been stretched across a ceiling in Linda and Bryant Edwards's first-floor apartment.

And from the home itself, in an elegant Haussmann building dating to 1905, the family has its own view -- of the garden behind Notre Dame Cathedral....

When her husband, 54, presented her with the apartment as a gift for her 40th birthday, Mrs. Edwards envisioned a kind of "Tale of Two Cities" life, split between Paris and what was then the couple's home in London.

The generous husband in question, Bryant Edwards, is a partner at Latham & Watkins. Last year he moved to Dubai, where he serves as managing partner of the firm's Middle East office. The Edwardses now use their Paris apartment as a pied-à-terre when they return to the Continent.

So, the question you're all wondering: How much did this amazing apartment cost?