Attorneys

Sean P. McGinley
Charleston, West Virginia

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phone	(304) 342-0133
fax	(304) 342-4605
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Mr. McGinley is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer. He represents clients in personal injury cases, commercial and business litigation, and class actions.

Mr. McGinley was raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, and attended college at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, receiving an A.B. degree in 1987. He studied law at Oxford University (Keble College) in Oxford, England, where he obtained an honours degree in Jurisprudence. After obtaining his law degree, Mr. McGinley worked at the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia as a law clerk, from 1990 through 1993. Mr. McGinley clerked both for Chief Justice Thomas E. McHugh, and Justice Thomas B. Miller. From 1994 through 1995, Mr. McGinley was a law clerk to the Hon. Charles H. Haden, II, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. He has been with the firm since October of 1995.

Since joining the firm, Mr. McGinley has considerable trial experience. He also has successfully prosecuted many appeals to the Supreme Court of West Virginia.

Mr. McGinley has been a member of the Governing Council of the West Virginia Law Institute since 2001. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Association for Justice. He also is a member of both the West Virginia and Kanawha County Bar Associations. Mr. McGinley has lectured media organizations on First Amendment and defamation issues.

Mr. McGinley and his wife, Ana G. Marino, have two sons, Liam Patrick McGinley, and Colin Sean McGinley. They reside in Charleston.

Year Joined Organization:: 1995

Areas of Practice:: Litigation & Appeals; Business & Commercial Law; Personal Injury -- Plaintiff; Communications & Media Law; Constitutional Law; Professional Malpractice Law; Ethics & Professional Responsibility; Environmental Law; Employment Law -- Employee

Litigation Percentage:: 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions:: West Virginia, 1991; U.S. District Court Southern District of West Virginia, 1991; U.S. District Court Northern District of West Virginia, 1999; U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1996

Education:: Oxford University Faculty of Law, Oxford, England, 1990
B.A. (Hons), Jurisprudence
Honors: With Honors; Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, May, 1987
A.B.
Major: History
Major: Government

Published Works:: West Virginia's Very Own Celotex Trilogy: A Series of Recent Opinions by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Reveals that the Rumors of Rule 56's Death Were Greatly Exaggerated, 98 W.Va.L.Rev. 571, 1996

Representative Cases:: Keeney v. Charnock, 441 F.Supp.2d 769 (United States District Court for Southern District of West Virginia 2006); West Virginia ex rel. McGraw v. Minnesota Mining & Mfg., 354 F.Supp.2d 660 (United States District Court for Southern District of West Virginia 2005); Lawyer Disciplinary Board v. Moore, 591 S.E.2d 338 (Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia 2003); Osborne v. United States, 567 S.E.2d 677 (Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia 2002); Bradshaw v. Soulsby, 558 S.E.2d 681 (Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia 2001); State ex rel. Rist v. Underwood, 524 S.E.2d 179 (Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia 1999); Wooten v. Roberts, 518 S.E.2d 645 (Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia 1999); Fitz water v. Harding, 510 S.E.2d 286 (Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia 1998); Brown v. Carvill, 527 S.E.2d 149 (Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia 1998); State ex rel. Charleston mail Association v. Ranson, 488 S.E.2d 5 (Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia 1997); Cordial v. Ernst & Young, 483 S.E.2d 248 (Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia 1996); Smith v. Stacy, 482 S.E.2d 115 (Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia 1996); State ex rel. East End Association v. McCoy, 481 S.E.2d 764 (Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia 1996); State ex rel. Suriano v. Gaughan, 480 S.E.2d 848 (Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia 1996)

Representative Clients:: Daily Gazette Company; The Associated Press; Coach Rich Rodriguez

Professional Associations and Memberships:: Governing Council, West Virginia Law Institute, 2001 - Present; Member; West Virginia State Bar, 1991 - Present; Member; American Bar Association; Member; American Inn of Court; Master; ABA, First Amendment and Media Litigation Committee; Member; American Association for Justice; Member; Kanawha County Bar Association; Member

Past Employment Positions:: Chief Justice Thomas E. McHugh and Justice Thomas B. Miller, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, Law Clerk, October 15, 1990 - December 31, 1993; Hon. Charles H. Haden, II, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, Law Clerk, January 1, 1994 - August 31, 1995

The personal injury lawyers at DiTrapano, Barrett & DiPiero serve clients throughout West Virginia, including Charleston, Huntington, Beckley, Parkersburg, Morgantown, Hurricane, Logan, Williamson, Welch, and Princeton in West Virginia.