Law360 reporter Zagger departs for law firm

Zach Zagger

Zach Zagger, who has been covering sports betting and gaming for Law360, has joined law firm Ogletree Deakins as a senior marketing counsel.

He has been with Law360 since September 2013. He had been covering sports betting and gaming since July 2015.

Zagger had spearheaded the launch of Law360’s “Sports” newswire in summer 2015 and coordinated the more recent rebrand to “Sports & Betting” to include sports wagering and other gambling legal issues.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.