Bloomberg Law
Feb. 7, 2017, 1:17 AM UTC

Cozen Hires Lawyers Who Investigated UVA Sexual Misconduct Policies

Stephanie Russell-Kraft

Cozen O’Connor is forming a new practice group dedicated to improving institutional responses to child abuse, sexual and gender-based harassment and violence.

The group will be led by lawyers who join from Pepper Hamilton, where they were hired by the University of Virginia to investigate its sexual misconduct practices in the wake of Rolling Stone’s since-rebuked indictment of the campus.

Gina Maisto Smith and Leslie M. Gomez, who will be chair and vice chair of the practice group, also have experience leading sexual misconduct investigations at Baylor University, Amherst College, Occidental College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ...

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