If You Invested in Enron, Read This Now

As a former Enron shareholder, I'm not expecting a huge windfall from a pending class-action suit against the company.

But I intend to claim every last cent of the paltry sum that may be awaiting me.

More than six years have passed since Enron, the former energy-trading giant, filed for bankruptcy, costing its investors as much as $60 billion in market value. The debacle is a historical milestone for American business that's now synonymous with corporate corruption and fraud.

My husband, Ben, and I owned just a tiny fraction of the overall pot -- 50 shares, once valued at about $3,000 -- but we're filling in every line of a claim form that arrived this month in a continuing class-action suit arising from Enron's collapse. ...