Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon

Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon
Headquarters	New York City, U.S.
No. of attorneys	190
Key people	Richard Nixon
Date founded	1869
Dissolved	1995

Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon was a New York City law firm founded in 1869. The firm was later known as Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, & Alexander, and was subsequently again renamed as Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander.

The firm is best known best as the law firm where Richard Nixon relaunched his career following his losses in the 1960 presidential election and 1962 California gubernatorial election. Nixon served as "public partner" for the firm, bringing in business and clients, and the firm gave him a platform to plan his political comeback. Several of Nixon's key aides and advisors during the 1968 Presidential campaign came from the firm, and Nixon met John Mitchell, his 1968 campaign chair and eventual Attorney General, after Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander merged with Caldwell, Trimble & Mitchell in 1967. Plagued with internal fights for leadership and management authority in the firm, combined with defections of some of its largest clients, the firm was dissolved in 1995. At the time, it employed approximately 190 attorneys.

Notable employees

Notable attorneys and employee at the firm included:

Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York^{[citation needed]}
William P. Ford, civil rights advocate for Salvadorans.
David M. Friedman, U.S. ambassador to Israel
Randolph H. Guthrie, chairman of the Studebaker corporation and later of Studebaker-Worthington.
Elizabeth Blodgett Hall, headmistress for Concord Academy
Leonard Garment, White House Counsel after the resignation of John Dean
James Halpern, United States Tax Court judge
John Kirby, notable for his successful defense for Nintendo against Universal Studios over the copyrightability of the character of Donkey Kong.
Scooter Libby, former assistant to U.S. vice president Dick Cheney and U.S. president George W. Bush
John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General
Richard 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

References

↑ James J. Florio (2018). Standing on Principle: Lessons Learned in Public Life. Rutgers University Press. pp. 243–. ISBN 978-0-8135-9433-0.
↑ Torry, Saundra (22 November 1993). "Leonard Garment finds a challenge in expansion puzzle". Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via washingtonpost.com.
1 2 "Lawyers: The Factories". Time magazine. 24 January 1964. Archived from the original on December 14, 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via time.com.
↑ Galbraith, John Kenneth (30 July 1973). "How the Great New York Lawyers let us Down". New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via Google Books.
↑ "The Personal Papers of John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.362.1963. {{cite CiteSeerX}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help)
↑ "Milton C. Rose, 97, Lawyer At Firm of Nixon and Mitchell". The New York Times. 21 March 2002. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
1 2 Goldberg, Carey (1 October 1995). "The Mudge Rose Firm Enters the Tar Pit of Legal History". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
↑ Li, Victor (2018). Nixon in New York: How Wall Street Helped Richard Nixon Win the White House. Bloomsbury Publishing/Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 9781683937524.
↑ "In Search of Deep Throat". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
↑ Garment, Leonard (25 October 2001). Crazy Rhythm: From Brooklyn And Jazz To Nixon's White House, Watergate, And Beyond. Da Capo Press, Incorporated. p. 62. ISBN 9780306810824. Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via Internet Archive. Nixon-Mudge.
↑ Paul Moorehead (July 22, 2013). "Radical Enlightenment: The Man Behind Nixon's Federal Indian Policy". Indian Country Media Network. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
↑ LESLEY OELSNERMAY 11, 1973 (1973-05-11). "A Time of Trouble Looms for Mitchell Firm - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
↑ Mintz, Morton (30 August 1977). "Law Firm Accused of Aiding One Client Over Another". Washington Post. Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via washingtonpost.com.
↑ "Mitchell Takes Leave From His Law Office - The New York Times". The New York Times. 1973-05-12. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
↑ By FRED P. GRAHAMFEB. 16, 1972 (1972-02-16). "Mitchell Quits; Nomination Goes To Kleindienst - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
↑ Reeves, Richard (20 December 1971). "Mitchell Redux". New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via Google Books.
↑ Staff and Wire Reports (10 November 1988). "John Mitchell, Key Watergate Figure, Dies at 75". Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via LA Times.
↑ By TOM GOLDSTEINSEPT. 20, 1975 (1975-09-20). "Court Rejects a Nixon Bid To Resign From State Bar - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
↑ TOM GOLDSTEINJULY 9, 1976 (1976-07-09). "New York Court Disbars Nixon for Watergate Acts - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
↑ "Paid Notice: Deaths: ROBINSON, DONALD J." 22 June 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via NYTimes.com.^{[dead link]}

External links

"Eye Mudge Rose - IBERC Israeli activities". July 1986.
846 F.2d - Volume 846 of the Federal Reporter, 2nd Series. "MUDGE ROSE GUTHRIE ALEXANDER & FERDON, Appellant v. U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION, et al". justia.com. Retrieved 22 July 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
"The Accidental Defenders". Law.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-27. Retrieved 22 July 2017.

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[Florio2018-1] James J. Florio (2018). Standing on Principle: Lessons Learned in Public Life. Rutgers University Press. pp. 243–. ISBN 978-0-8135-9433-0.

[2] Torry, Saundra (22 November 1993). "Leonard Garment finds a challenge in expansion puzzle". Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via washingtonpost.com.

[Time-magazine-3] 1 2 "Lawyers: The Factories". Time magazine. 24 January 1964. Archived from the original on December 14, 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via time.com.

[4] Galbraith, John Kenneth (30 July 1973). "How the Great New York Lawyers let us Down". New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via Google Books.

[5] "The Personal Papers of John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.362.1963. {{cite CiteSeerX}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help)

[6] "Milton C. Rose, 97, Lawyer At Firm of Nixon and Mitchell". The New York Times. 21 March 2002. Retrieved 22 July 2017.

[TNYT-7] 1 2 Goldberg, Carey (1 October 1995). "The Mudge Rose Firm Enters the Tar Pit of Legal History". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 September 2014.

[8] Li, Victor (2018). Nixon in New York: How Wall Street Helped Richard Nixon Win the White House. Bloomsbury Publishing/Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 9781683937524.

[9] "In Search of Deep Throat". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-20.

[10] Garment, Leonard (25 October 2001). Crazy Rhythm: From Brooklyn And Jazz To Nixon's White House, Watergate, And Beyond. Da Capo Press, Incorporated. p. 62. ISBN 9780306810824. Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via Internet Archive. Nixon-Mudge.

[11] Paul Moorehead (July 22, 2013). "Radical Enlightenment: The Man Behind Nixon's Federal Indian Policy". Indian Country Media Network. Retrieved 22 July 2017.

[12] LESLEY OELSNERMAY 11, 1973 (1973-05-11). "A Time of Trouble Looms for Mitchell Firm - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[13] Mintz, Morton (30 August 1977). "Law Firm Accused of Aiding One Client Over Another". Washington Post. Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via washingtonpost.com.

[14] "Mitchell Takes Leave From His Law Office - The New York Times". The New York Times. 1973-05-12. Retrieved 2018-09-20.

[15] By FRED P. GRAHAMFEB. 16, 1972 (1972-02-16). "Mitchell Quits; Nomination Goes To Kleindienst - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[16] Reeves, Richard (20 December 1971). "Mitchell Redux". New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via Google Books.

[17] Staff and Wire Reports (10 November 1988). "John Mitchell, Key Watergate Figure, Dies at 75". Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via LA Times.

[18] By TOM GOLDSTEINSEPT. 20, 1975 (1975-09-20). "Court Rejects a Nixon Bid To Resign From State Bar - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[19] TOM GOLDSTEINJULY 9, 1976 (1976-07-09). "New York Court Disbars Nixon for Watergate Acts - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[20] "Paid Notice: Deaths: ROBINSON, DONALD J." 22 June 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via NYTimes.com.^{[dead link]}