Barnes & Thornburg has hired Lee Hutton III, a former college football player and chair of the entertainment, media and sports practice at Zelle LLP in Minneapolis, as a partner for its litigation and entertainment groups in the Twin Cities.

Hutton’s hire comes a few weeks after Barnes & Thornburg watched another well-known sports lawyer, partner Wm. David Cornwell Sr., leave its Atlanta office, a little more than a year after he joined the firm from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani.