So often when a scandal breaks, the first question the public asks is: Where were the lawyers? At Pennsylvania State University, the answer seems to be: Not there.

Little is known about the role Penn State’s general counsel played during the various stages of the university’s sexual abuse crisis—or is playing now. But one thing is clear: The school didn’t have in-house lawyers when the allegations first surfaced, back in the 1990s.

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