Earlier this month, Gordon & Rees announced the addition of one of the sports industry’s most prominent attorneys.

David Cornwell Sr., 51, arrives in the firm’s Atlanta office with 25 years of sports-related law experience that includes a five-year stint as the National Football League’s assistant league counsel. Cornwell took the in-house post with the NFL in 1987 after spending two years in the litigation group at New York firm Whitman & Ransom (now part of Winston & Strawn).