Services are pending for Malcolm J. Romano, an attorney for 41 years, who died Wednesday at age 78. Romano was not known to be in ill health, other than what one friend of his described as a “broken heart.” He was deeply affected by the passing of his wife, Mary Romano, on Sept. 12, 2016.

The attorney was inducted into the Italian American Lawyers Association Hall of Fame at a dinner on May 17. “It was never anything less than joy to be around Malcolm and Mary,” retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Phillip Argento, a founding member of the IALA, said yesterday. “He was a true gentleman, a man of qualities we should all aspire to.”