DP2
Individual
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http://proethica.org/ontology/case/171#DP2
Properties
Parent
Decision Point Id
DP2
Decision Question
Should Engineer A disclose to Engineer B that Engineer A is actively soliciting Engineer B's current clients during the notice period, or proceed with solicitation without informing Engineer B?
Focus
Engineer A's Independent Disclosure Obligation: Whether Engineer A's failure to disclose to Engineer B that solicitation of Engineer B's current clients was actively underway during the notice period constitutes an independent breach of the faithful agent duty, separate from and compounding the ethical violation of the solicitation itself.
Option1
Inform Engineer B before or contemporaneously with client contact that Engineer A is notifying clients of the new firm, satisfying the affirmative disclosure component of the faithful agent duty and allowing Engineer B to make informed decisions about the notice period arrangement.
Option2
Contact Engineer B's clients without informing Engineer B, reasoning that the employer-initiated termination dissolved the reciprocal trust basis for the disclosure obligation and that advance notice would expose Engineer A to retaliation or accelerated termination.
Option3
Notify clients only that Engineer A is starting a new firm and is available for future work, without leveraging specific insider knowledge of client project needs or vulnerabilities, and without disclosing the solicitation to Engineer B — treating the general announcement as categorically different from targeted competitive solicitation.
Role Label
Engineer A
TTL
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Individual
Content Hash
9c7e0ff5bd5f6492...Last Updated
2026-03-08 16:29
Extraction Provenance
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2026-03-02T15:07:59.159525
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ProEthica Case 171 Extraction