Nina zagat ted zagat biography

Nina S. Zagat (née Safronoff) and her husband, Eugene Henry "Tim" Zagat, Jr. (born , New York City) (pronounced ) are the founders and publishers of Zagat Restaurant Surveys. They met at Yale Law School and were both practicing attorneys when they founded Zagat Surveys.^[1][2]

Early life

The Zagats married during law school, graduated in , and moved to New York where they became corporate lawyers.^[3]

Law careers

Nina Zagat was an associate with the Wall Street white shoe firmShearman & Sterling,^[4] where she gained notability acting as Seward Johnson's attorney and author and executor of his will.

She represented his widow, Barbara "Basia" Piasecka Johnson, while the will was contested by his children; The Washington Post quotes an affidavit by the children's attorney that described her relationship to her client as "a contemporary, traveling companion and close personal friend whose recompense for loyalt