Frank Lucianna, a powerhouse defense attorney in Hackensack and a World War II veteran, died Monday, leaving an impressive legacy and profound love of the law. "He's an institution," said his daughter Diane Lucianna. "[For] 71 years he was practicing law in Hackensack."

Lucianna was 99 years old at the time of his death. Diane, her sister Nancy and her mother, Dolores, helped her father through the last five weeks, before he died in his Englewood Cliffs home. "He was courageous," Diane Lucianna said. "He was a lover of the law profession."