November 11, 2011 8:06 PM
The Score: King Spalding’s Sollers to Represent Paterno as Penn State Launches Internal Inquiry
Posted by Brian Baxter
Add two more lawyers to the horde already attending to the fallout from the sexual abuse scandal roiling Penn State University.
The Am Law Daily reported on the attorneys hired by various parties connected to the unfolding drama at the school, where state prosecutors charged former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky with 40 counts of sexual abuse and university officials Tim Curley and Gary Schultz with covering up his alleged crimes. And that was before the university’s board of trustees—which includes several lawyers—fired football coach Joe Paterno and Penn State president Graham Spanier.
On Friday, the trustees named Penn State alum Kenneth Frazier to lead an internal investigation into why the allegations against Sandusky—who is accused of abusing eight boys over a 15-year period, at least some of them in university athletic facilities—weren’t reported to the proper authorities. Frazier is the CEO of Merck, having been promoted to the position last year after serving as the company’s general counsel for many years.
Frazier and Pennsylvania Secretary
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