EDITOR’S DESK
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he first high-profile conviction of the #MeToo era was reversed in June, and Bill Cosby walked out of the Pennsylvania prison where he was serving a ten-year sentence for drugging and
raping a Temple University sports administrator. In their article in this issue of Today’s General Counsel, Phillip Voluck and Jennifer Prior make the case that this does not signal a systemic betrayal of sexual harassment victims. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s reversal of Cosby’s conviction rested on the fact that he had an agreement that he wouldn’t be prosecuted for the rape if he sat for a deposition in a civil case filed by the same victim, and the prosecution violated that agreement. In other articles in this issue, Jeffery Cross considers the broader antitrust implications of the Supreme Court’s NCAA decision concerning payment to student athletes, and Heather Thomas discusses experiments with alternative legal service models going on in several states. In our general counsel interview, we talk to Sarah Schott, who was recently hired as Chief Compliance Officer as well as General Counsel at a health-benefits company.
Bob Nienhouse, Editor-In-Chief bnienhouse@TodaysGC.com
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