Legal industry site Law360 has hired Brett Barroquere to cover legal issues.
He has been working for the Southern Poverty Law Center as an investigative reporter.
Barroquere was previously the city editor for The Courier newspaper in Houma, Louisiana. He also spent a decade as the Associated Press correspondent in Louisville, Kentucky.
He also worked for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida and the Baton Rouge Advocate in Louisiana.