Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, lead counsel in the shareholder action to recover cash lost in the energy giant's collapse, is hosting a meeting in the hotel and will be on hand to help anyone looking to join its suit.

So if you bought Enron-related stock between 1997 and 2001, you (and about 1.5 million others) could be eligible for a share of the $7.2bn (£3.6bn) recovered so far.

The firm will even pay for your parking while you fill out the required forms.

To some, Coughlin, which has led the recovery process, is the ambulance chaser's ambulance chaser. To others it's performing a valuable service.

Like the rest of us, it's waiting to hear whether US district judge Melinda Harmon will approve distribution of the recovered money. It is also keenly waiting on news of whether the $688m it is claiming in fees will get the green light too.

As you might expect the claim has come in for no small amount of criticism. One investor representative has called the lawyers' fees, an affront to every working person in this country'.

Coughlin sees it differently, of course, stressing its 9.5% no-win-no fee claim is far lower than the 33% most lawyers get in similar cases. In its defence, it has taken on a case as complex and risky as the financing structures that were Enron's undoing.

And compared to the $5.4m spent on photocopying alone in the bankruptcy case (where fees topped $725m) it looks like something of a bargain.

Damian Wild is editor in chief of Accountancy Age