Legal Week Global could not have chosen a more eventful year in which to launch. And it is not hard to find the culprit.

‘Top firms to defend record Enron law suit’, was the front-page headline of our inaugural April issue. Enron’s collapse has cast a long shadow over global business in 2002. Enron led directly to the largest ever law firm collapse – that of Andersen Legal – and set alarm bells ringing in the boardrooms of the world’s growing band of international law firms.