What is happening here? No sooner does the media hysteria begin over the Enron affair than calls for a change in the lawyers’ Rules of Professional Conduct ring throughout the land.
It starts with no less an authority than the editorial page of The New York Times, which announced on Jan. 28, “As scrutiny turns from accountants to lawyers in this scandal, the legal profession should be looking for ways to assure Americans that when fraudulent activities are under way that threaten their livelihoods, their investments and their pensions, lawyers will be on their side, not on the side of the criminals.”
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