Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon

Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon was a prominent New York City law firm tracing its origin back to 1869. The firm was later known as Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, & Alexander; and was later renamed Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander. The firm is known best as the legal relaunching pad of Richard Nixon. 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.

Notable alumni and employees

 * Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
 * William P. Ford, defender of civil rights for Salvadorans.
 * David M. Friedman, U.S. Ambassador
 * Randolph H. Guthrie, chairman of the Studebaker corporation and later of Studebaker-Worthington.
 * Elizabeth Blodgett Hall, headmistress for Concord Academy
 * Gao Xiqing, General Manager of the China Investment Corporation
 * Leonard Garment, White House Counsel after the resignation of John Dean
 * 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
 * John Kirby (attorney), notable for his successful defense for Nintendo against Universal Studios over the copyrightability of the character of Donkey Kong.