Jack at Captain Yips sends an email comparing the situation of soon-to-be-ex-Boalt Dean John Dwyer to ex-Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene:

There is another way of looking at this that complements the bucket of dead fish smell. Aside from the agenda of the former student and her attorney, there is the school's agenda. This situation is very similar to the dismissal of Bob Greene from The Chicago Tribune earlier this year. ... Greene had been a prominent columnist for the Trib for a long time. Rather a boring one, in a lot of opinions including mine, but he had his audience. Earlier this year he was dismissed nominally for a "improper" relationship with a girl about whom he had written a story. The story and the "relationship" occurred years ago. Recently, she contacted Greene and he seems to have pulled some strings to drive her away. This part of the story is very vague-he may or may not have used a contact at the FBI or he may have had someone pretend to be an FBI agent. No one is talking. The young woman then emailed the editor of the Trib, who pulled the ripcord on Greene. Created a big splash in journalism circles. ... What is interesting and similar is that Greene seems to have womanized industriously for years, and notoriously so within the profession. That Trib management knew about his behavior is beyond doubt. I think that he had become an embarrassment to the organization years ago, and the management took this opportunity to dump him. In the Boalt case, I suspect that the Dean had outworn his welcome, and this accusation was a handy way to expel the unwanted element. Neither Greene nor the Dean (couldn't resist that) did anything they hadn't been doing for years and years and years; in both cases, I think institutional elements had long ago sharpened their knives for them, and were all too happy to take advantage of the accusations. And both men had so much baggage that they couldn't resist.

UPDATE: A reader disagrees with the analogy between Dwyer and Greene:

...the post analogizing this case to the Greene case is way off. The irony of this case is that Dean Dwyer was doing a lot of good for Boalt. His mission was to take Boalt from a top-ten law school to one of the top two or three. He had increased minority and women enrollment even compared to the last year before Prop 209 outlawed race- and gender-based admissions policies. He spent a lot of time raising money for the school to great success. He could be found most nights and weekends working late at the law school and then back again early in the morning.