{{short description|American lawyer and law professor}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Harold G. Wren | honorific_suffix = | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pronunciation = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. -->1921 | birth_place = Norfolk, Virginia | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|06|13|1921}} | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = Hal | alma_mater = Columbia University (AB 1942, LLB 1948)<br>Yale University (master's degree) | occupation = Dean | employer = *the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville, *the Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College (1969–72), and *the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond. | notable_works = ''The Of Counsel Agreement'' | spouse = Beryl Bird | children = 2 | awards = Fulbright Fellow }} '''Harold "Hal" G. Wren''' (1921 – June 13, 2016) was a lawyer, law professor, and dean of three American law schools.<ref name="louisville.edu">{{cite news|url=https://louisville.edu/law/news/dean-harold-wren-dies-at-age-95|title=Dean Harold Wren dies at age 95 — Louis D. Brandeis School of Law|via=louisville.edu}}</ref> In addition, he was the author of multiple editions of the well reviewed legal guidebook, ''The Of Counsel Agreement''.<ref name="ABA">"Practical Guides to Law Office Management", ''ABA Journal'' (July 1999), Vol. 85., p. 96.</ref>
==Biography== Wren was born in Norfolk, Virginia.<ref name="louisville.edu"/> He grew up in Norfolk as well as in Brooklyn, New York.<ref name="louisville.edu"/> He served in the United States Navy during World War II.<ref name="louisville.edu"/><ref name="Runyon">{{cite web|url=https://wfpl.org/uofls-brandeis-school-law-impresses-years-after-adversity/|title=UofL's Brandeis School of Law Impresses Years After Adversity|publisher=WFPL|first=Keith|last=Runyon|date=May 16, 2013}}</ref> He achieved the rank of captain in the naval reserves.
Wren attended Columbia University where he received an A.B. undergraduate degree from Columbia College in 1942,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development |url=http://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_033 |title=Columbia College today |last2=Columbia College (Columbia University) |date=1991–1992 |publisher=New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development |others=Columbia University Libraries}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Collection: Harold G. Wren papers {{!}} Rare and Distinctive Collections – University of Colorado Boulder |url=https://archives.colorado.edu/repositories/2/resources/186 |access-date=2022-06-18 |website=archives.colorado.edu}}</ref> Columbia Law School where he received an LL.B. law degree in 1948, and Yale University where received a master's degree.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vsc8AQAAIAAJ&q=Harold+G.+Wren+%22willkie+farr%22|title=The Virginia Bar Association Journal|date=March 15, 1975|publisher=Virginia Bar Association|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="louisville.edu"/><ref name="auto">{{cite journal|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/urich8&id=27&div=&collection=|title=Charitable Remainder Trusts: Some Considerations to Draftmanship|first=Harold G.|last=Wren|journal=University of Richmond Law Review|volume=8|pages=25}}</ref><ref name="bc.edu">{{cite web|url=https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=bcheights19650115.2.11|title=The Heights, Volume XLV, Number 15 — 15 January 1965 — Boston College Newspapers|website=newspapers.bc.edu}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HQSob065-CUC&q=%22Harold+G.+Wren%22+dean&pg=PR17|title=The Lawyer's Guide to Buying, Selling, Merging, and Closing a Law Practice|first1=Sarina|last1=Butler|first2=Richard G.|last2=Paszkiet|date=March 15, 2019|publisher=American Bar Association|via=Google Books|isbn=9781590319321}}</ref> He was a Fulbright Fellow, and later wrote a number of books.<ref name="bc.edu"/><ref name="auto1"/>
He first was a practicing attorney at the law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher.<ref name="auto1"/>
Later, Wren was a law professor and dean at three law schools, including the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville, the Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College (1969–72), and the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond.<ref name="louisville.edu"/><ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://collegian.richmond.edu/?a=d&d=COL19741024.2.30|title=The Collegian — University of Richmond 24 October 1974 — The Collegian Newspaper Archives|website=collegian.richmond.edu}}</ref> As dean of the Brandeis School of Law, Wren oversaw the opening of a new wing of the law school building, "doubling the space and providing a handsome home for the law library and the Brandeis papers".<ref name="Runyon"/>
Wren also authored multiple editions of ''The Of Counsel Agreement'', a guidebook for law offices wishing to have attorneys of counsel to the firm.<ref name="ABA"/><ref>Susan A. Berson, ''The Lawyer's Retirement Planning Guide'' (2010), p. 234.</ref> Following the release of the second edition in 1999, the ''ABA Journal'' remarked that the first edition "helped thousands of lawyers and law firms enter the largely undefined area of the Of Counsel relationship".<ref name="ABA"/>
==Personal life== Wren married Beryl Bird in 1948, with whom he had two children, both of whom became lawyers. He died on June 13, 2016, at 95 years of age.<ref name="louisville.edu"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.law.columbia.edu/alumni/in-memoriam-fall-2016|title=In Memoriam|website=Columbia Law School}}</ref>
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