CHARLESTON — A respected Charleston attorney has died after being involved in an accident on Interstate 79.
Sean McGinley was a partner at DiPiero Simmons McGinley & Bastress in Charleston. On the evening of June 3, he was traveling back from a hearing in Morgantown when the crash occurred.
L. Dante diTrapano said McGinley will be deeply missed.
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"Sean was family to us," diTrapano said to The West Virginia Record. "My dad hired Sean right out of law school and treated him like a son and, therefore, he was my brother. He was a brilliant lawyer and an amazing person that will be missed by everyone who was blessed to know him."
The accident occurred near the Frametown exit, and two lanes of the southbound highway were closed due to the accident, according to West Virginia 511.
Tim DiPiero spoke about McGinley on Talkline with Hoppy Kercheval Friday morning, saying he was a brilliant attorney, but he was also a family man.
"He was just all-around a superb person," DiPiero said on Talkline.
DiPiero said McGinley loved spending time with his family and they would schedule work things around games and practices so that McGinley could participate in his son's sports.
“He’s just a wonderful person who cared about justice, cared about his family, our firm. He was just a great friend and a great human being,” DiPiero said on Talkline. “It’s hard for me to think of him as being gone right now.”
McGinley had been working as an attorney for decades. He joined DiPiero in 1995. He was raised in Morgantown and went to Keble College at Oxford University, where he received his law degree in 1990. He also served as a law clerk at the West Virginia Supreme Court for three years and also clerked for Judge Charles Haden in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.
McGinley lived in Charleston with his wife, Ana, and their sons, Liam and Colin. He also coached youth baseball and basketball.