COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) -- Considering all the negative press former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann has garnered since allegations of sexual harassment and a hostile work environment became public knowledge in April, it's hard to imagine anything new could happen.

While it's not new that a Dann employee would file a complaint with the EEOC alleging a hostile work environment, among other things, as two women still employed at the Ohio AG's office did in February, what is different is that this time, the complainant is an attorney herself.

In documents filed by Jennifer Urban, a lawyer with the Ohio AG's office since June 2005, she said she had been subjected to a hostile work environment due to alleged harassment by former Dann employees Anthony Gutierrez and Leo Jennings. At the time, they were Dann's general services chief and communications director, respectively.

The men, who had also been living with Dann in a suburban Columbus condominium he owned until the former AG moved out, held those jobs until they were fired for their misconduct May 2.

At a June 4 meeting with Stephanie Bostos Demers, the AG's Director of Human Resources, Urban detailed her allegations. In a letter from Bostos Demers to Urban dated June 18, the HR head wrote that since the office had been officially placed on notice of potential EEO policy violations, AG policy dictated that an investigation be undertaken.

Urban also claims to have been the subject of blogging and the release of improper information to the public. While she had been romantically linked to Jennings, Urban indicated things are not always what they seem.

One week after Dann's May 14 resignation, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland named Nancy Hardin Rogers the state's top lawyer. She left her post as dean of the Michael E. Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University to assume the AG job. She immediately announced her intention not to run for the office in a special November election to fill the remaining two years of Dann's term. Richard Cordray, Ohio's current treasurer, is the Democratic Party's endorsed candidate for the job. Strickland, Rogers and Dann are also Democrats.

The Ohio Republican Party has yet to name a candidate to oppose Cordray but have until Aug. 30 to do so.