San FranciscoWhen more than 3,000 lawyers next week descend on San Francisco for the International Bar Association’s (IBA’s) annual conference they are sure to find the surroundings very different from 2002.

But the themes that promise to dominate the post-Enron debate, when the week-long event kicks off on Sunday (14 September), will seem eerily familiar to those who made the trek to last year’s conference in Durban, South Africa.