Engineer A Conflict of Interest — Cross-Side Adversarial Retention BER 85-4
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/106#Engineer_A_Conflict_of_Interest_—_Cross-Side_Adversarial_Retention_BER_85-4
Properties
Instance of
Active period
From Attorney X's approach to Engineer A through Engineer A's agreement to provide report for defendant
Affected parties
Attorney X
Attorney Z
Defendant
Engineer A
Plaintiff
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Subject
Engineer A's conflict between obligations to former plaintiff client and acceptance of retention by defendant's attorney in the same proceeding
Terminated by
Not properly resolved — Engineer A accepted the conflicted retention; proper resolution would have been declination
Triggering event
Attorney X's solicitation of Engineer A to provide engineering analysis for defendant in the same case where Engineer A had previously been retained by plaintiff's attorney
Urgency level
high
Source Evidence
Source text
In deciding that Engineer A's actions were not ethical
Text references
Engineer A had to have been aware of the reasons why his services were being retained by virtue of the sequence of events
In deciding that Engineer A's actions were not ethical
the real reason for the defendant's attorney's hiring Engineering A was that the attorney believed Engineer A would provide a report that would be favorable to the attorney's client
TTL
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
106
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T00:41:39.456182+00:00
First case
106
Generated
2026-02-28T00:41:39.456182+00:00
Attributed to
Case 106 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T00:58:47.906047
Generated by
ProEthica Case 106 Extraction