The state will hire an outside law firm to help the University of Connecticut investigate its response to allegations that music professor Robert Miller committed sexual misconduct with university students and also has molested children off campus, including several boys who attended a camp for sick children.

The Connecticut Attorney General's Office is seeking bids from a law firm to advise and represent UConn's Board of Trustees. The trustees have called on Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen to retain a law firm to "oversee and direct a review into how allegations may have been handled by university personnel prior to 2013," according to the university.