At DiPiero Simmons McGinley & Bastress, PLLC, we believe that money shouldn’t get in the way of one’s dreams. Since 2018, our law firm has proudly offered a scholarship for students who are in need of financial assistance to pursue a higher education.

In 2022, we made some changes to our scholarship and dedicated it to the memory of Sean Patrick McGinley, who we unexpectedly lost in 2021. Sean McGinley was more than a dear friend and colleague to all of us. He was a skilled attorney and litigator, loving father and husband, and faithful benefactor and advocate of the local community here in Charleston, West Virginia.

June 3rd, 2022 was the first anniversary of Sean McGinley’s death. A Mass was held in his honor at Blessed Sacrament in South Charleston.

We remember our law partner and good friend, Sean McGinley, who died last year ago in a terrible car collision. Sean was an excellent attorney and a tremendous asset to our firm. His death left a huge void in our office. We miss his legal expertise, his management skills, his companionship and certainly his great laugh and sense of humor.

More importantly, Sean was a wonderful family man. We hope that Sean’s joy for living and the exemplary life he led will continue to inspire and comfort his wife, sons, parents, sister, and their extended family as they try to cope with his shocking death and his absence from their everyday lives.

The law firm of DiPiero Simmons McGinley & Bastress, PLLC is proud to be a sponsor for the upcoming ACLU-WV Foundation Bill of Rights Bash scheduled to be held on March 19, 2022. The Bill of Rights Bash will be hosted at Beni Kedem Temple in Charleston, West Virginia. This fundraising event celebrates the work that has and continues to be accomplished by the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia.

The law office of DiPiero Simmons McGinley & Bastress, PLLC is proud to sponsor two upcoming tennis tournaments in our area. As a Charleston-based personal injury law firm, we are honored to take part in events benefitting and enriching the lives of members of our local communities. In February 2022, DiPiero Simmons McGinley & Bastress, PLLC will support The HospiceCare Tennis Tournament and The Friends of Marshall University Tennis Tournament.

At DiPiero Simmons McGinley & Bastress, PLLC, we pride ourselves on doing what we can to boost our local and nationwide communities. As part of that dedication, we understand the importance of education and how crucial it is for aspiring students and professionals to receive a college degree. We decided to start a scholarship in 2018 that was specifically geared toward first-year college students. The Fall 2021 submission period just came to a close.

We were humbled by the amount of applications we received as well as the overall quality of every essay. The essays were fantastic and we enjoyed reading them! We’d like to thank everyone who applied.

We’re pleased to announce we’ve chosen a winner.

Congratulations to Cheyenne Schad of Colorado!

Cheyenne will be attending University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus to pursue a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology.

Sean McGinley died on June 3, 2021. Take one look in his office and you will see what Sean valued most in life—his wife Ana and their two sons Liam and Colin. Photos of their smiling faces are everywhere. Sean was a devoted family man who balanced his role as a husband, father, part-time coach, chauffeur, and fisherman while also being a passionate, intelligent, and successful advocate for his clients. We will always remember Sean’s great laugh, keen intellect, calming presence, and dry sense of humor. While we mourn his untimely and tragic death, we celebrate the way he lived his life and we will remember all of the good times we had with him.

The law firm wishes to thank everyone for the supportive calls, emails, texts, Facebook messages, and walk-ins. The show of support from the legal community is a true testament to the man Sean was.

At DiPiero Simmons McGinley & Bastress, PLLC, we pride ourselves on doing what we can to boost our local and nationwide communities. As part of that dedication, we understand the importance of education and how crucial it is for aspiring students and professionals to receive a college degree. We decided to start a scholarship in 2018 that was specifically geared toward first-year college students. The Fall 2020 submission period just came to a close.

We were humbled by the amount of applications we received as well as the overall quality of every essay. The essays were fantastic and we enjoyed reading them! We’d like to thank everyone who applied.

We’re pleased to announce we’ve chosen a winner.

Congratulations to Celine Moubayed of California!

Celine is attending UC Hastings College of the Law.

At DiPiero Simmons McGinley & Bastress, PLLC, we pride ourselves on doing what we can to boost our local and nationwide communities. As part of that dedication, we understand the importance of education and how crucial it is for aspiring students and professionals to receive a college degree. We decided to start a scholarship in 2018 that was specifically geared toward first-year college students. The Fall 2019 submission period just came to a close.

We were humbled by the amount of applications we received as well as the overall quality of every essay. The essays were fantastic and we enjoyed reading them! We’d like to thank everyone who applied.

We’re pleased to announce we’ve chosen a winner.

Congratulations to Caroline Kurdej of Schaumburg, IL!

Caroline is attending Northwestern University. She is pursuing her MS in Journalism.

At DiPiero Simmons McGinley & Bastress, PLLC, we pride ourselves on doing what we can to boost our local and nationwide communities. As part of that dedication, we understand the importance of education and how crucial it is for aspiring students and professionals to receive a college education. We decided to start a scholarship in 2018 that was specifically geared toward first-year college students. Our first period for the scholarship– Fall 2018– just came to a close.

We were humbled by the amount of applications we received as well as the overall quality of every essay. The essays were fantastic and we enjoyed reading them! We’d like to thank everyone who applied.

We’re pleased to announce we’ve chosen a winner.

Congratulations to Zoe Terner of Lake Worth, Florida!

Zoe will be attending George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences in Fall 2018. She’ll be pursuing studies in History and Political Science.