HBO Premieres George Clooney-Produced Documentary Covering ECBAWM Case Representing Sexual Abuse Survivors at Ohio State

  • June 16, 2025

The Tribeca Film Festival recently premiered the HBO Documentary “Surviving Ohio State” produced by George Clooney. The documentary details decades of sexual abuse by doctor Richard Strauss of thousands of students at the Ohio State University, in one of the biggest sexual abuse scandals in the history of American higher education.

ECBAWM attorneys are proud to represent these survivors in ongoing litigation against the university and ECBAWM Partner Ilann Maazel is featured in the documentary. ECBAWM is co-counseling the case with Public Justice and attorney Scott Smith.

Read more about the documentary here. The documentary will premiere on HBO on June 17.