June 17, 2005
New York Lawyer

For the past decade, The Appleseed Foundation of Washington, D.C., has fostered public interest law centers throughout the country. For six of those years, Robert H. Mundheim, of counsel at Shearman & Sterling and a former dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, served as its president.

Earlier this month, Mr. Mundheim formally stepped down at a banquet in his honor at New York's Essex House Hotel. During his tenure, he was involved in a number of local initiatives, including a teacher recruitment campaign that New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said resulted in more than $8.5 million in volunteered time and services.

Guest speakers at the Appleseed banquet, which raised $500,000, included David Heleniak, vice chairman of Morgan Stanley; Robert E. Denham, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson; and Diana Daniels, general counsel to the Washington Post Company and outgoing co-chair of Appleseed's board of directors.

Mr. Mundheim and Ms. Daniels are succeeded by co-chairmen Marc Fleischaker of Arent Fox in Washington, and Leonard Kennedy, house counsel at Nextel in Reston, Va.