Seal named ME at American Lawyer

Ben Seal

Ben Seal has been hired as the managing editor of The American Lawyer, where he is responsible for helping to plan, edit and write for the monthly magazine.

He previously spent five years with the magazine’s Philadelphia-based sister publication, The Legal Intelligencer, where he was magazines and supplements editor for four years before spending a year as a staff reporter. In that role, he covered Pennsylvania’s state courts, the state legislature and the Attorney General’s Office, including the tumultuous tenure and perjury trial of former Attorney General Kathleen Kane.

He came to The American Lawyer following a stint in Drexel University’s communications department, where he wrote for its magazines and newsletters.

He graduated from Boston University in 2009 and is based in Philadelphia.

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.