Loyalty to Client Within Ethical Limits — Dual Legislative Advocacy
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/114#Loyalty_to_Client_Within_Ethical_Limits_—_Dual_Legislative_Advocacy
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Legislative advocacy for competing dam design solutions on behalf of respective clients
Balancing with
Objectivity
Public Policy Engineering Debate Open Resolution Principle
Concrete expression
Each engineer serves their respective client's interests (state power commission preferring low dams; private power company preferring one high dam) faithfully by presenting and defending their client's preferred engineering solution before the legislature, while remaining within the bounds of professional ethics by grounding testimony in engineering analysis and data.
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Interpretation
Loyalty to client in the legislative testimony context means presenting the client's preferred engineering position with full professional support, including voluminous data and peer criticism, but not exceeding what the engineering evidence supports.
Invoked by
Private Power Company PE Legislative Witness
State Power Commission PE Legislative Witness
Tension resolution
Loyalty and objectivity are reconciled by the advocacy-objectivity balance principle: faithful representation of client interests is ethically permissible when grounded in genuine engineering analysis.
Source Evidence
Source text
A professional engineer representing the state power commission testifies that engineering studies by him and his professional colleagues indicate the most efficient solution from an engineering standpoint is a series of low dams.
Text references
A professional engineer representing the state power commission testifies that engineering studies by him and his professional colleagues indicate the most efficient solution from an engineering standpoint is a series of low dams.
Another professional engineer, representing a private power company, testifies that his engineering analysis indicates a more effective and less expensive solution, producing the same results, by using one high dam.
TTL
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"Another professional engineer, representing a private power company, testifies that his engineering analysis indicates a more effective and less expensive solution, producing the same results, by using one high dam." ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
114
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T15:19:51.753769+00:00
First case
114
Generated
2026-03-02T15:19:51.753769+00:00
Attributed to
Case 114 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T15:38:37.726618
Generated by
ProEthica Case 114 Extraction