Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon was a prominent

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founded in 1869. The firm was later known as Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, & Alexander, was subsequently again renamed as Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander. The firm is best known best as the law firm where

Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until Resignation of Richard Nixon, his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican ...

relaunched his career following his resignation as president in August 1974. 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 Geoffrey Steven Berman (born September 12, 1959) is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2018 to 2020. He is the Global Chair of the litigation department at the law firm Fried, ...

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William P. Ford William P. Ford (April 28, 1936 – June 1, 2008) was an American lawyer and bond trader. His sister, Ita Ford, a Roman Catholic nun, was one of four nuns murdered in El Salvador. After this, Ford became an advocate for justice for the murder ...

, civil rights advocate for Salvadorans. *

David M. Friedman David Melech Friedman (born August 8, 1958) is an American bankruptcy lawyer and the former United States Ambassador to Israel. He joined the law firm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman (then known as Kasowitz, Hoff, Benson & Torres) in 1994, ...

, U.S. ambassador to Israel *

Randolph H. Guthrie Randolph H. Guthrie (1905 – September 11, 1989) was an American lawyer and businessman who became the chairman of the Studebaker corporation. Early life and education Guthrie was born in Richmond, Virginia. He attended The Citadel, The Mili ...

, chairman of the

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corporation and later of

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. *

Elizabeth Blodgett Hall Elizabeth Blodgett Hall (November 16, 1909 – July 18, 2005) was an administrator of both secondary and college level institutions. She was a pioneer and innovator of the 'early college' model of post-secondary education. Early life Hall was ...

, headmistress for

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* Leonard Garment, White House Counsel after the resignation of John Dean * James Halpern,

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judge * John Kirby, notable for his successful defense for Nintendo against Universal Studios over the copyrightability of the character of Donkey Kong. *

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, former assistant to U.S. vice president

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and U.S. president

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John N. Mitchell John Newton Mitchell (September 5, 1913 – November 9, 1988) was the 67th attorney general of the United States, serving under President Richard Nixon and was chairman of Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns. Prior to that, he had been ...

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, the thirty-seventh

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, former Register of Copyrights of the United States *

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, a

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for the

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* John Sears, an attorney and a Republican political strategist. *

Gordon C. Strachan Gordon Creighton Strachan (born July 24, 1943) is an American attorney and political staffer who served as an aide to H.R. Haldeman, the chief of staff for President Richard Nixon and a figure in the Watergate scandal. He is the last surviving ...

, aide to White House Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman under

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, General Manager of the

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