Jones is an appraiser who was hired by Monolith Corporation to appraise a number of its properties in connection with financial statements to be issued in relation to a registration statement. Because Monolith Corporation has a high turnover of investment real estate, Jones was hired again for help in preparing the annual financial statements for each of the next two years. It turns out that Jones was negligent in performance of all the appraisals that led to material misstatements on the financial statements of all years concerned. Jones did not know that the appraisals or financial statements were misstated. Discuss Jones' legal situation.