William Lerach Quotations

It sends a very serious message to those banks that have not yet settled that they better get about settling soon or they are going to pay more and more as time goes by,

They wanted to bring us clients for one-third of our fee, and we refused to do that.

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.

The settlement reflects the level of involvement from CIBC, and reflects the fact they waited for others to settle before them, and that reflects the settlement amount,

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,

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.

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.

They feel they want to maximize whatever recovery they can.

They are going to cross their fingers, sign, and pray for the best,