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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.
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, expanding offices in Washington and New Jersey, as well as its sections for litigation and international law.
A group of prominent lawyers, including chairman, joined Latham & Watkins.[3]
Notable alumni and employees
- Pat Buchanan, an American politician, author, syndicated columnist, and broadcaster
- William P. Ford defender of civil rights for El Savadoreans.
- 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
- 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
- Carolyn Clark Campbell, Clerk Of Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
References
- ^ The Factories Article from Time magazine, 24 January 1964
- ^ The Mudge Rose Firm Enters the Tar Pit of Legal History Article from the New York Times, 1 October 1995
- ^ The Drudge Report Article from New York Magazine, 14 June 1999
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Categories:- Law firms based in New York City
- Defunct law firms of the United States
- Law firms established in 1869
- Defunct companies based in New York
- Companies disestablished in 1995
- Companies based in New York City
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