Exclusive | Bosses of canoodling Central Park lawyers were also hooking up and one just got a $100M payday
These lawyers seem to all be working pro-boner.The viral Central Park smoochfest between two lawyers was just the tip of the iceberg, The Post can reveal.William “Bill” Savitt, 63, one of the country’s leading corporate litigators, and senior partner Sarah Eddy were getting in each others’ briefs while working together at white-shoe firm Wachtell Lipton, according to legal sources.Sources insist that Wachtell Lipton does not have a non-fraternization policy, so their relationship did not violate any of the firm’s rules.Savitt just jumped from Wachtell Lipton to rival Gibson Dunn this week for a massive $96 million pay package — after he helped secure OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s courtroom victory over Elon Musk in a $150 billion lawsuit.
He took Eddy and four other senior partners from the litigation team with him, in a move that has been the talk of Big Law.Eddy, a divorced Canadian who’s also a Harvard Law School lecturer, worked on Savitt’s team, but she was not his subordinate, sources said.Savitt is on the verge of finalizing a divorce from his wife, designer Nazak Savitt, following three years of separation, according to the sources.
They had shared a ritzy $5.4 million Upper West Side apartment in The Chatsworth building.Eddy and Savitt are no longer believed to be together, and it is unclear when they ended their romantic relationship.It began after Savitt separated from his wife, the sources said — and did not violate any Wachtell policy because the firm has no rule prohibiting relationships between colleagues.Eddy divorced her husband 10 years ago and was single at the time she began her relationship with Savitt, the sources said.Savitt and Eddy were previously recognized as “Litigators of the Week” by The American Lawyer for their role in securing a unanimous jury verdict in favor of Open AI in the Musk v.Altman case in California, according to a since-removed press release from Wachtell Lipton.The married big shot was also the super...