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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