Hope Natural Gas" (1944), a landmark regarding government rate-setting. In spring 1945, Shea joined the staff of his friend Justice Robert H. Jackson, who President Truman had appointed to prosecute captured Nazi leaders for committing war crimes. During summer 1945, Shea worked as one of Justice Jackson's chief assistants in Washington and then in London, where the U.S. and allied nations negotiated the creation of the International Military Tribunal (IMT). That fall, Shea and all of the Jackson staff relocated to Nuremberg in the U.S. military occupation zone of the surrendered former Nazi Germany. Shea and staff assembled evidence and prepared cases, primarily regarding Nazi economic measures that had supported the Nazi Party and state, for trial before the IMT. In October, Shea was the United States representative who presented to the IMT in Berlin the indictment of the defendants who then were prosecuted in Nuremberg. Shea left Jackson's staff before the international Nuremberg trial began in November 1945. In fall 1946, Shea returned to Nuremberg and was present with Jackson when the IMT rendered its judgments on September 30 and October 1. In 1947, Shea and Warner W. Gardner, a fellow lawyer in DOJ during the 1930s and early 1940s, founded what became a leading Washington law firm, Shea & Gardner. Shea had an active litigation and regulatory practice there until his death in 1989, of lung cancer, in Alexandria, Virginia. Francis Shea was married to attorney Hilda Droshnicopp Shea (June 22, 1910 – January 13, 2009). They were parents of a son, Richard.