text: Rene A. Wormser, a lawyer who specialized in estate planning and wrote six books on the subject, died yesterday at his home in Greenwich, Conn. He was 85 years old.
  
  Mr. Wormser was a partner and a founder in 1930 of the New York law firm of Wormser, Kiely, Allessandroni, Hyde & McCann. He was chairman of the advisory committee of the University of Miami's Institute on Estate Planning, which he helped establish. He was also adjunct professor in the graduate program of the University of Miami Law School.
  
  From 1945 to 1955, he was a member of the faculty and the advisory committee of the Institute on Federal Taxation of New York University, and was chairman of its estate planning section. He organized and conducted a course in estate planning at the university's graduate school and taught estate planning at the Practising Law Institute in New York.
  
  He was the author of ''Your Will and What Not to Do About It''; ''Personal Estate Planning in a Changing World,'' which went through nine editions after its initial publication by Simon & Schuster in 1942; ''Wormser's Guide to Estate Planning,'' and ''Planning and Administration of Estates.''
  
  Mr. Wormser also wrote ''The Law,'' published by Simon & Schuster in 1949 and reissued in paperback in 1962 as ''The Story of the Law,'' covering the subject from ancient times through the Nuremburg trials.
  
  In 1953 and 1954, Mr. Wormser was general counsel to a special Congressional committee investigating tax-exempt foundations. He drafted the final majority report, which provided the basis for another book, ''Foundations, Their Power and Influence.'' From 1969 to 1971, he was a member of an advisory committee to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue on tax-exempt organizations.
  
  Mr. Wormser was a native of Santa Barbara, Calif. He graduated from Columbia College in 1917 and the Columbia Law School in 1920. He is survived by his wife, the former Ella Madge Ward, and two daughters, Angela of Fairfield, Conn., and Elissa of Copake, N.Y. His brother, Felix E. Wormser, a mining engineer and former Assistant Secretary of the Interior, died in Greenwich on June 29.
  
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summary: Rene A. Wormser, a lawyer who specialized in estate planning and wrote six books on the subject, died yesterday at his home in Greenwich, Conn. He was 85 years old.   Mr. Wormser was a partner and a founder in 1930 of the New York law firm of Wormser, Kiely, Allessandroni, Hyde & McCann. He was chairman of the advisory committee of the University of Miami's Institute on Estate Planning, which he helped establish. He was also adjunct professor in the graduate program of the University of Miami Law School.