By Caitlin Tremblay
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff will retire to join
Troutman Sanders as partner in its state attorneys general team
in Washington in January. He held the AG post for three terms.
Corporate attorney Judy Deng has left Pillsbury Winthrop
Shaw Pittman for Reed Smith's office in Silicon Valley,
California. She will focus on cross-border U.S.-China
transactions and corporate financing of companies with
international operations.
Littler Mendelson has hired James Witz as shareholder in
Chicago. He moves over from Freeborn & Peters and will co-lead
the firm's Chicago unfair competition and trade secrets
practice.
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz has added two
new attorneys from Haskell Slaughter in its Birmingham, Alabama,
office. Andy Rotenstreich joins the firm as shareholder and Tom
Buchanan will be of counsel, and both will be with the real
estate and finance practice group. Baker Donelson has also hired
Cliff Hodge, formerly of Wise Carter Child & Caraway, as senior
counsel in its litigation group in Jackson, Mississippi.
In London, Squire Sanders has hired Philippa Chadwick and
Paula Laird as partners. Chadwick joins from Berwin Leighton
Paisner and specializes in international project finance and
development bank finance. Though based in London, she will work
with the Moscow, Warsaw and Asia-Pacific offices. Laird,
currently head of banking at Wragge & Co, will join the firm's
banking and debt finance segment of its global financial
services group.
(Corrects the name of the company where Paula Laird
currently works. She is head of banking at Wragge & Co, not
Chartered Trust PLC.)
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