20 Quotes by William Lerach

Unfortunately, not matter how successful we are, we will never get all of the money back,

Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.

Now who do you think cooked these books? Some janitor or low-level employees?

phony partnerships set up to inflate the profits.

I don't think you can draw any conclusions. The ocean comes in, the ocean goes out. It doesn't feel any different to me.

we dropped Mack as a named defendant for the time being, subject to some understandings we reached with his counsel.

We do want a trial date. We want to get there as soon as we can. This case is going to settle. And I hope sooner rather than later.

We can't predict the future, we don't want to try and predict the future, but this development is obviously very favorable for our side of the case.

We can't predict the future, but we've said all along that those that settle earlier will do better than those that didn't come to the table at the appropriate time.