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Five days a week for 26 years, Charleston lawyer Tim DiPiero walked into work where heâd see his friend and colleague Sean McGinley, whom he remembered as a gifted attorney with âa keen sense of right and wrong and seeking justice.â
An Interstate 79 crash Thursday killed McGinley near the Frametown exit in Braxton County. He was returning from a hearing in Morgantown. He was 55.
McGinley served as counsel to The Charleston Gazette and, later, the Gazette-Mail during a sparkling legal career spanning 30 years. He was a partner at DiPiero Simmons McGinley & Bastress PLLC, in Charleston.
âSean was a brilliant lawyer,â DiPiero said. âJust amazingly talented. . He would always improve any draft of writing I did. He could always make it better. He was incredible at research and writing, and just had a way with words.
Charleston lawyer Sean McGinley killed in interstate accident By
Sean McGinley
Charleston lawyer Sean McGinley, prominent and admired for his work inside and outside the courtroom, has died in an interstate crash.
McGinley was killed in an accident on Interstate 79 in Braxton County late Thursday afternoon while returning to Charleston from a court hearing in Morgantown, his law partners said.
West Virginia 511, which reports road conditions around West Virginia, reported a crash on Interstate 79 at 5:16 p.m. Thursday near the Frametown exit. The crash required two lanes of southbound highway to be closed.
“I’m at a loss to grasp it,” said his longtime law partner, Tim DiPiero.