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After the Enron Trial, Defense Firm Is Stuck With the TabThe Washington Post
Friday, June 16, 2006, Page D01
by Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
© Copyright 2006 The Washington Post
To the list of employees, investors and businesses who suffered financial misfortune in Enron Corp.'s demise, add this one: the law firm defending former chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling.
Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers LLP, which has represented Skilling on both civil and criminal charges since 2001, collected what in a typical case would be a fat payday: $23 million from its client and $17 million more from his insurance policies.
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"The biggest trial team is a bit like an iceberg," said John Toothman, president of the Devil's Advocate, a Great Falls legal fee review firm. "You have some people at the table, and you have some people in the pews."
Toothman said he asks clients a central question: "Do we really need all this?"
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