In 1960, Bill Ruder was appointed by President Kennedy as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and took a two-year leave of absence from the firm. He later wrote a book with co-author Ray Nathan entitled A Businessman's Guide to Washington (MacMillan). In 1980 he formed his own personal consulting firm while continuing to be a stockholder in Ruder Finn and a member of its board. His office is located in the New York headquarters of the firm.

David Finn became one of the leading writers on public relations and business. His books include Public Relations and Management and The Corporate Oligarch. His articles have appeared in The Harvard Business Review, Harper's, Fortune, Marketing News, The Saturday Review, Across the Board, Reader's Digest and other publications. He has also won recognition as a photographer with over 50 books of his photographs published, from the sculpture of ancient Egypt to the 20th century sculpture gardens in the mountains of Japan. His work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, the Art Gallery of Toronto, the Yale Center for British Art and in a number of galleries in the U.S. and abroad.

Ruder Finn's New York headquarters is today the second largest in the city. It also has major offices in Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, Raleigh, Paris, London and the Pacific Rim. At various times during its history the firm has had wholly-owned offices in San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, St.Louis, Atlanta, New Orleans, San Juan, Milan, Rome, Geneva, Toronto, Jerusalem, Stockholm and Tokyo. Today the firm's policy is to have wholly-owned offices only where clients can be served best by a full-service staff. Special assignments are handled in cities throughout the world by partners and affiliates. The Ruder Finn Field Network in the U.S. alone today includes affiliates in 100 cities.

Clients of Ruder Finn have included many Fortune 500 corporations as well as small and mid-sized growth companies, trade associations, colleges and universities, visual and performing arts institutions, foundations, professional firms and non-profit organizations. The firm has worked at every level of city, state and federal government, and for many foreign governments including Argentina, Colombia, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Thailand and Zaire.