Adversarial Retention Motivation Awareness Obligation Violated By Engineer A Accepting Defense Retention
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/172#Adversarial_Retention_Motivation_Awareness_Obligation_Violated_By_Engineer_A_Accepting_Defense_Retention
Properties
Instance of
AdversarialRetentionMotivationAwarenessObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#AdversarialRetentionMotivationAwarenessObligation
Case context
Attorney X learned of the specific circumstances of Engineer A's termination by Attorney Z — including that Engineer A had concluded the plaintiff was at fault — and then sought to retain Engineer A, making the motivation for retention transparent.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to recognize that Attorney X's motivation for seeking his retention was specifically tied to his prior access to plaintiff-side confidential information and his perceived ability to provide a defense-favorable report, and to decline the engagement on that basis.
Temporal scope
Upon being approached by Attorney X after termination by Attorney Z
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Switching Sides Prohibition Invoked Against Engineer A
Source Evidence
Source text
Attorney X, representing the defendant in the case, learns of the circumstances relating to Engineer A's unwillingness to provide a report in support of Attorney Z's case and seeks to retain Engineer A to provide an independent and separate engineering and safety analysis report.
Text references
Attorney X, representing the defendant in the case, learns of the circumstances relating to Engineer A's unwillingness to provide a report in support of Attorney Z's case and seeks to retain Engineer A to provide an independent and separate engineering and safety analysis report.
Engineer A agrees to provide the report.
TTL
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case172:Adversarial_Retention_Motivation_Awareness_Obligation_Violated_By_Engineer_A_Accepting_Defense_Retention a proeth:AdversarialRetentionMotivationAwarenessObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Adversarial Retention Motivation Awareness Obligation Violated By Engineer A Accepting Defense Retention" ;
proeth:casecontext "Attorney X learned of the specific circumstances of Engineer A's termination by Attorney Z — including that Engineer A had concluded the plaintiff was at fault — and then sought to retain Engineer A, making the motivation for retention transparent." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case172:Switching_Sides_Prohibition_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A ;
proeth:discoveredincase "172" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T18:12:19.808401+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "172" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T18:12:19.808401+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Adversarial Retention Motivation Awareness Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to recognize that Attorney X's motivation for seeking his retention was specifically tied to his prior access to plaintiff-side confidential information and his perceived ability to provide a defense-favorable report, and to decline the engagement on that basis." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Attorney X, representing the defendant in the case, learns of the circumstances relating to Engineer A's unwillingness to provide a report in support of Attorney Z's case and seeks to retain Engineer A to provide an independent and separate engineering and safety analysis report." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon being approached by Attorney X after termination by Attorney Z" ;
proeth:textreferences "Attorney X, representing the defendant in the case, learns of the circumstances relating to Engineer A's unwillingness to provide a report in support of Attorney Z's case and seeks to retain Engineer A to provide an independent and separate engineering and safety analysis report.",
"Engineer A agrees to provide the report." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 172 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T18:28:40.767470"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 172 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
172
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T18:12:19.808401+00:00
First case
172
Generated
2026-03-01T18:12:19.808401+00:00
Attributed to
Case 172 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T18:28:40.767470
Generated by
ProEthica Case 172 Extraction