The #MeToo movement has hit the Ohio State University athletic department with a double whammy, resulting in a flurry of legal activity in the past week, and one almost needs a program to keep straight who are the lawyers on which issue.

The double whammy consists of two separate, unrelated investigations of alleged sexual or gender-related misconduct: The first involves the school’s nationally prominent football program and an investigation into coach Urban Meyer’s response after he learned of allegations of domestic abuse against one of his assistant coaches in 2015. OSU brought in Debevoise & Plimpton partner Mary Jo White, former U.S. attorney in Manhattan and ex-chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, to head that one.

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