Arizona Law has been lucky to benefit from his experience and attention. As a member of the faculty with a unique appointment that brings him to the College of Law for much of each Spring term, Bob is a leader in our Business Law Program, focusing on corporate law and finance and teaching corporate governance courses. Throughout the year he serves as an advisor to me, to faculty and students, and to the College.

  

Bob is currently Of Counsel to Shearman & Sterling in New York City where he advises on corporate governance issues and counsels special committees charged with complex cases such as the buy-outs of HCA, Aramark, and Bright Horizons.

 

In fact, much of his law career involves stepping forward and providing an ethical and moral voice to whatever issue or situation is unfolding with corporations or the federal government.

  

He was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as General Counsel to the U.S. Treasury Department in 1977.He later returned to the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he had already established a teaching career. But again, Washington (and history) called. The White House contacted him for help in January 1981 as part of the successful negotiations for the release of the American hostages in Iran.

  

During the 1990s, the same great lawyering and moral compass that brought him to Washington drew him to Wall Street. He stepped into Salomon, Inc. to help rebuild the struggling trading house. Bob became Executive Vice President and General Counsel for what became known as Salomon Smith Barney and, after mergers and acquisitions, morphed into what we know as Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

  

His academic career has been just as diverse and illustrious. He served as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1982 to 1989. He has also taught at Duke, Harvard, UCLA, Universität Konstanz in Germany, and the capstone of his academic career -- here at Arizona Law.

Bob's desire to perpetuate and maintain legal ethics in academia, business, and government leads him to committees that further his mission. He has chaired the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and served as a member of the ABA Task Force on Corporate Responsibility.

  

He also supports nonprofit organizations including Appleseed, which works to guarantee equal access to the law, and the Curtis Institute of Music, which educates and trains young musicians.

  

When he is in residence each Spring Bob teaches an extraordinary course on Corporate Governance. As part of that course he brings in Fortune 500 General Counsel and the lawyers who counsel such corporations in a series of "Conversations with Bob Mundheim." These Conversations are open to the community by reservation, and are attended by faculty and students from the College of Law and the Eller College of Management. The speakers and dates for this Spring are:

  

• March 24th Labe Jackson - Chair of the Audit Committee at JPMorgan Chase
• April 7th John Cannon - Practice Group Leader of the Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits Group and Chair of the Corporate Governance Advisory Group at the law firm of Shearman and Sterling
• March 31st Peter Mundheim - Principal and Counsel of Stone Point Capital
• April 14th Simon Lorne - Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer at Millennium Management, L.L.C.  
• April 2nd Brandon Becker - Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at TIAA-CREF 

 

 

To join any of these Conversations, click here to RSVP.