Although you would be hard-pressed to find an adult today who has not at least heard of Enron Corp.'s collapse in 2001, decades of attorneys have passed through law school and into practice since its demise. Many of those have only a limited appreciation for the truly fundamental role that Enron played in reshaping the landscape of corporate governance and compliance. Instead, to the extent Enron is remembered in the collective conscience, it is usually in the context of some of the scandal's most headline-grabbing aspects: being, at the time, the largest bankruptcy in history; causing the implosion of Arthur Anderson (and thus turning the "Big Five" accounting firms into the "Big Four"); and resulting in the criminal indictment and incarceration of a number of Enron executives.