Legal Liability Quotes

We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.

Those who are innocent today may be guilty tomorrow.

He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

Those who do not prevent crimes when they could, encourage them.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

By God, we’ve got to get rid of the lawyers.

There is no sentence in the United States Constitution that says the president's children cannot be indicted.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Ignorantia legis neminem excusat

When executives allegedly lie to the investing public about their company's performance and thereby harm the integrity of the market, they must be held accountable.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

When you contribute to an open-source or a shared solution, and there's a liability issue that arises from the use of that solution, how will this be tracked back to individual contributors?

Our independence from AOL was so important to me that I negotiated an extremely odd provision in our purchase agreement that allowed me to disclose confidential information about AOL. It was their job never to give me that information. It was not my job to protect it in any way.

Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.

The compulsions of the law seem to have been provided for those only who require compulsions

Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing?

The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections.

We will make the law clearer on parents' liability for failing to prevent their child being subjected to FGM, and we are working to improve the police response.

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.

Michael Cohen is a criminal and Michael Cohen is a political prop.

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.

My involvement in the Simpson criminal trial was a personal matter and did not involve Movie Tunes, its distributors or exhibitors.

Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.

I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.