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Multidisciplinary Practice after Enron: Eliminating a Competitor but Not the Competition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Bryant G. Garth
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The three articles that make up this “trenches and towers” symposium address the future of multidisciplinary legal practice (MDP) after the regulatory fallout of the Enron scandal. The fallout brought the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, restricting accountants in providing consulting and legal services, and the demise of Arthur Andersen—which had been a global leader in linking law to the major accounting firms.

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“From the Trenches and Towers”: MDPs After Enron/Andersen
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , Summer 2004 , pp. 591 - 595
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2004 

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