After a 14-month joint investigation, Covington & Burling and Weil, Gotshal & Manges released this week a report into the abuse, harassment and bullying toward players in professional women’s soccer league.

In an interview, Covington partner Amanda Kramer said the joint investigative team spent “thousands of hours” on the matter, with the firms conducting hundreds of interviews. The report comes a couple of months after King & Spalding’s Sally Yates, retained by the U.S. Soccer Federation, also released a high-profile report that found abuse in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) was systemic and affected many players.

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