WilmerHale has been and continues to be home to many leaders. Not only leaders in the firm and in the legal profession, but leaders who have made significant contributions to the advancement of causes that have shaped our nation's history. Those who went before us continue to inspire those among us today.
Here, we celebrate some of our most revered past leaders, with commentary from current leaders.
 | Joseph Welch (1890-1960)
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Commentary by Jerry Facher, renowned Boston litigator and Harvard Law School lecturer
Respected trial lawyer Joe Welch rose to national prominence when he represented the Department of the Army in the nationally televised Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954. His excoriation of McCarthy for his cruelty, recklessness and abandonment of any “sense of decency” was later immortalized in the 1964 documentary Point of Order. Welch went on to become a television personality and, a year before his death, appeared as a judge in the Otto Preminger movie Anatomy of a Murder. |
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