Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr legendary litigator Jerry Facher, who was once portrayed by Robert Duvall in the movie “A Civil Action,” died on Sept. 19 at the age of 93.

The onetime chair of Hale and Dorr’s litigation department, Facher for 29 years also taught a section of Trial Practice at Harvard Law School.

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