Active Client Solicitation During Continued Employment State
Class
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ActiveClientSolicitationDuringContinuedEmploymentState
Definition
State in which an engineer, while still actively employed by and receiving compensation from a firm, directly contacts and solicits the firm's clients for personal competitive benefit — specifically to attract those clients to a new practice the engineer is planning to establish. This state represents a direct conflict between the engineer's ongoing faithful agent obligations to the employer and the engineer's self-interested competitive actions, and is ethically distinct from post-employment solicitation because the engineer retains full access to employer client relationships, confidential information, and goodwill at the time of solicitation.
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Definition
State in which an engineer, while still actively employed by and receiving compensation from a firm, directly contacts and solicits the firm's clients for personal competitive benefit — specifically to attract those clients to a new practice the engineer is planning to establish. This state represents a direct conflict between the engineer's ongoing faithful agent obligations to the employer and the engineer's self-interested competitive actions, and is ethically distinct from post-employment solicitation because the engineer retains full access to employer client relationships, confidential information, and goodwill at the time of solicitation.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A thereupon notified clients of Engineer B that Engineer A was planning to start another engineering firm and would appreciate being considered for future work
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rdfs:label "Active Client Solicitation During Continued Employment State" ;
rdfs:comment "State in which an engineer, while still actively employed by and receiving compensation from a firm, directly contacts and solicits the firm's clients for personal competitive benefit — specifically to attract those clients to a new practice the engineer is planning to establish. This state represents a direct conflict between the engineer's ongoing faithful agent obligations to the employer and the engineer's self-interested competitive actions, and is ethically distinct from post-employment solicitation because the engineer retains full access to employer client relationships, confidential information, and goodwill at the time of solicitation." ;
rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#State> .
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Ontology
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Class
Content Hash
2b97c39a7e5621fb...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
171
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-03-02T14:24:15.972252+00:00
First Discovered In Case
171
Generated
2026-03-02T14:24:15.972252+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 171 Extraction