Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon

Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon was a prominent New York City law firm tracing its origin back to 1869.^[1] The firm is known best as the legal launching pad of Richard M. Nixon.^[2] For the period during which Nixon was a senior partner, the firm was renamed to Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Mitchell.

The firm employed some 190 lawyers at the time of dissolution in 1995. Among problems that ultimately destroyed the firm were a long internal fight for leadership, management, and significant client defections. ^[3]

Notable alumni and employees

• Pat Buchanan, an American politician, author, syndicated columnist, and broadcaster
• William P. Ford, defender of civil rights for Salvadorans.
• Randolph H. Guthrie, chairman of the Studebaker corporation and later of Studebaker-Worthington.
• Elizabeth Blodgett Hall, headmistress for Concord Academy
• James Halpern, a judge of the United States Tax Court
• Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former Assistant to Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush
• John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General
• Richard M. Nixon, the thirty-seventh President of the United States
• Leonard Garment, White House Counsel after the resignation of John Dean
• Ralph Oman, former Register of Copyrights of the United States
• Jed S. Rakoff, a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York
• John Sears, an attorney and a Republican political strategist.
• Gordon C. Strachan, aide to White House Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman under U.S. President Richard Nixon
• Gao Xiqing, General Manager of the China Investment Corporation
• Hanns-Eberhard Schleyer, German lawyer and son of Hanns-Martin Schleyer
• Carolyn Clark Campbell, Clerk Of Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

References

1. The Factories Article from Time magazine, 24 January 1964
2. The Mudge Rose Firm Enters the Tar Pit of Legal History Article from the New York Times, 1 October 1995
3. Goldberg, Carey. "The Mudge Rose Firm Enters the Tar Pit of Legal History". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 29 September 2014.

External links

• Eye Mudge Rose-IBERC Israeli activities.
• MUDGE ROSE GUTHRIE ALEXANDER & FERDON, Appellantv.U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION, et al.
• The Accidental Defenders
• New York Times