 He, along with Paul's son Brian, were the senior partners at the time of his death.In addition to representing accused members of the IRA he would also practice malpractice and negligence law, and - towards the twilight of his career- indulge in political campaigns aimed at legitimizing the cause of the new IRA within American political circles by lobbying the government on behalf of Irish-American republicans and Irish nationalists; he was ultimately unsuccessful by the 1990s when a client Joe Doherty was deported in 1992 after 10 years of litigation.He died on November 16, 2006, aged 76, in Greenwich, Connecticut from complications from RA-induced pulmonary fibrosis.