The events at Enron and the impact they had on the Andersen organisation were truly amazing. Never had a professional services organisation of such size, breadth and, until then, reputation, disintegrated so quickly. For Andersen Legal, the growing legal arm of Andersen, the events were cataclysmic. From being the ninth-largest legal business by turnover in 2001, with a limited but rapidly growing reputation, it was suddenly gone.
So does this spell the end of the multi-disciplinary partnership (MDP) movement, which has been making so much noise in recent years? Events of the past year are clearly a setback, but the issues, that created a demand for MDPs in the first place, have not gone away.
