There are defining moments in every lawyer’s career – in mine, it was a twelve-month period in the aftermath of the Enron scandal.
On 12 March 2002, Arthur Andersen was indicted in connection with the now-infamous document shredding in one office in the US. A reputational tsunami hit every country across the globe. Andersen firms and people had to run for safety as their clients started to drop them. It was as dramatic as if, say, PwC or Clifford Chance were to disappear between now and year end.
