Earlier this month, Adisa Bakari left his role as president of the sports and entertainment practice at Dow Lohnes to join Kelley Drye & Warren.

Joining Bakari at Kelley Drye is Jeffery Whitney, the former vice president of Dow Lohnes’s sports group, which represents roughly 35 players in the National Football League, several coaches and media and entertainment personalities, and 60 professional boxers. All of those clients will now join Kelley Drye in Washington, D.C., where native son Bakari built Dow Lohnes’s sports group from the ground up.