More than a week before firing longtime assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine, Syracuse University trustees retained Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison to review the school’s initial response to allegations that Fine had sexually abused boys.

Fine, who has to date not been charged with any crime, was fired Sunday after 36 years on the Syracuse payroll when a third man came forward to claim that he had been molested by the former coach.

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