Widely respected Charleston lawyer Sean McGinley was killed Thursday afternoon in an Interstate 79 crash.
Returning from a hearing in Morgantown, McGinley was traveling slightly past 5 p.m. near the Frametown exit in Braxton County, roughly 55 miles northeast of Charleston, where the crash happened.Â
He long had 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 law partner Tim DiPiero said. âJust amazingly talented. Had a keen sense of right and wrong and seeking justice. 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.