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Admitting blame in any form exposes you to all sorts of litigation potential. Since it's impossible to know definitively that every hire you make is a good hum
by mvkel 2y ago
Admitting blame in any form exposes you to all sorts of litigation potential.
Since it's impossible to know definitively that every hire you make is a good human, it's inevitable that someone will come along who can really do damage.
That said, culpability at the org level is mostly optics, unless it's a systemic problem. Which this could be.
TLDR if you have a legal team, they'll demand you say nothing and not admit any wrongdoing.
- jclulow 2y agoI think it might actually be _the wrongdoing_ that really exposes you to legal liability.
- lazide 2y agoAh, the naïveté. You can end up with mountains of liability while doing nothing wrong. And doing plenty of things wrong while having no practical liability (due to leverage). Frankly, it’s so common that lawyers often don’t even care about what actually happened, rather what can be spun/alluded to/proven.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agoIn the American system the lawyer is also obligated to give you the best defense possible, actually caring about what happened might make that more difficult.
- curiousthought 2y agoI have to agree with lazide here. One poignant example is a man who accepts the fatherly role of a child can become legally liable for that child's wellbeing, support payments etc., whether or not the child is actually his biologically. Therefore it is not _the action_ of having a child that exposes the man to legal liability, it is verbally accepting and or acting as if the child is his (cases and situations vary greatly). This is part of why saying "Sorry" is so heavily avoided in certain subcultures, because it accepts culpability.