Note: After the publication of this article, CorpCounsel.com received a more detailed statement from Cynthia Baldwin’s attorney, Charles De Monaco, at Fox Rothschild LLP. That extended statement is available here [PDF].

On January 22, 2010, former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Cynthia Baldwin became the first general counsel of Penn State University—more than a decade after allegations of child sexual abuse against former university football coach Jerry Sandusky surfaced in the late 1990s.