Law360 reporter Shanes departing for law school

Alexis Shanes

Law360 reporter Alexis Shanes, who covers employment discrimination, is leaving the news operation at the end of the week.

Shanes planes to attend Georgetown University’s School of Law.

She has been at Law360 in Washington for the past year. She previously worked for Gannett in New York.

Shanes is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and Northwestern University.

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.