When Cynthia Baldwin was hired as Pennsylvania State University’s first general counsel, she never expected to be graded, much less by former Federal Bureau of Investigation director Louis Freeh. But Freeh’s probe into how the university handled sexual abuse allegations against former football coach Jerry Sandusky delivered a harsh report card on Baldwin’s own performance.
In July, when special counsel Freeh reported the results of his eight-month inquiry, he put it this way: “If you look at the evidence in our report, the general counsel for the university and outside counsel were seriously deficient in providing good, and important, and accurate counsel to their clients.”
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