Roy Reardon, the legendary former head of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s litigation department who spent more than six decades with the firm, died on Friday, the firm and his family announced. He was 92.

Raised in Astoria, Queens, Reardon was the second of four children born to a father who was a printer by trade and who worked for a financial newspaper that went belly up when the Great Depression hit. 

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