Bloomberg Law’s Wheeler begins “Opening Argument” column

Bloomberg Law senior legal reporter Lydia Wheeler has launched a column called “Opening Argument.”

The column will dig into interesting arguments in complex legal fights, unpacking issues that are dividing appeals courts across the country, and discussing disputes that are ripe for Supreme Court review.

Wheeler has been at Bloomberg Law since April 2019 covering litigation and legal issues related to health care and employee benefits.

She previously was a legal and regulatory affairs reporter at The Hill since January 2018. Before that, she was a federal regulations reporter for The Hill for three years.

Wheeler also worked at Inside Business, a Norfolk, Virginia business publication, for two years.

She is a graduate of Keene State College.

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.