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Interviews with current and former employees of Dann’s, as well as hundreds of e-mail messages released last week and the sexual-harassment complaints, point to a casual work environment that often extends into alcohol-lubricated evenings in which work and personal lives blur.

Much of the time, Dann’s married, high-level aides — and sometimes the 46-year-old attorney general himself — were accompanied in their nights on the town by younger, female staffers.

Some of the partying went on at the Dublin-area condo that, at the time, was shared by Dann and two longtime friends from Youngstown: Anthony Gutierrez, general services director, and Leo Jennings III, communications director.

Both Gutierrez and Jennings, who initially denied that staffers ever socialized at the condo, have been suspended with pay in connection with sexual-harassment complaints filed by two 26-year-old women Gutierrez supervised.

The complaints have opened a window into an office culture very unlike what is known of the buttoned-up state law offices headed by Democrat Dann’s predecessors, Republicans Jim Petro and Betty D. Montgomery.