From the Columbus Dispatch:

Ohio’s new attorney general took several steps yesterday to remove herself from a sticky web of relationships that could affect her ability to do her job impartially.

Nancy Hardin Rogers, on leave from her job as dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, said she’ll remove herself from any decisions involving the university or the influential law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, where her husband, Douglas R. Rogers, is a partner. The law firm has more than $1 million in legal contracts with the attorney general’s office.

Rogers also said she will step aside from any case involving her daughter’s law firm, which is based in Philadelphia and does little or no work in Ohio.

Gov. Ted Strickland chose Rogers last week to serve as attorney general for about six months, replacing Marc Dann, who resigned amid a sexual-harassment scandal. Rogers said she won’t run in the November special election to fill out the last two years of Dann’s term.

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