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Given the latest allegations of workplace misconduct from a former NFL Network employee, it’s now clear that the NFL’s in-house broadcast operation has a significant problem. And it’s critical for the NFL to get to the bottom of it.

Like the league has done in multiple past situations (the Dolphins’ bullying scandal, the Ray Rice video controversy, #DeflateGate, and most recently the Jerry Richardson issue in Carolina), the NFL needs to hire an outside (ideally, truly independent) law firm to investigate the network, top to bottom and inside-out in order to determine all instances of actual or potential sexual harassment over the past 5-10 years, to hold appropriate persons accountable, and to ensure that these situations don’t happen again.

Don’t count on that happening, however. The other instances involving investigations conducted by outside (but not necessarily independent) law firms presented a far lower risk of civil liability. As to NFL Network, the first lawsuit already has been filed. Who knows how many more will follow?

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