Client-Transmitted Confidentiality Obligation Arising From Plaintiff Attorney Engagement
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/172#Client-Transmitted_Confidentiality_Obligation_Arising_From_Plaintiff_Attorney_Engagement
Properties
Instance of
Client-TransmittedConfidentialityStrongerObligationPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Client-TransmittedConfidentialityStrongerObligationPrinciple
Applied to
Confidential case information and forensic analysis
Plaintiff Former Client Adverse Party
Balancing with
Absolute Loyalty Prohibition to Former Clients
Engineer mobility
Concrete expression
Attorney Z transmitted case documents, access to the plaintiff, and strategic case information to Engineer A in the course of the forensic engagement — creating a strong confidentiality obligation that survived the termination of the engagement and bars the subsequent defendant-side engagement
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Interpretation
The information transmitted by Attorney Z to Engineer A was client-transmitted in the course of a professional engagement, triggering the stronger confidentiality obligation — Engineer A cannot use this information, even implicitly through his analytical framework, in the subsequent defense engagement
Invoked by
Attorney Z Plaintiff-Side Retaining Attorney
Engineer A Forensic Expert Switching Sides
Tension resolution
The client-transmitted confidentiality obligation survives termination of the engagement and full payment of fees — the fact that Engineer A was paid does not extinguish the confidentiality obligation
Source Evidence
Source text
He is hired as a consultant by Attorney Z to provide an engineering and safety analysis report and courtroom testimony in support of a plaintiff in a personal injury case.
Text references
Engineer A is a forensic engineer. He is hired as a consultant by Attorney Z to provide an engineering and safety analysis report and courtroom testimony in support of a plaintiff in a personal injury case.
Engineer A's services are terminated and his fee is paid in full.
TTL
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case172:Client-Transmitted_Confidentiality_Obligation_Arising_From_Plaintiff_Attorney_Engagement a proeth:Client-TransmittedConfidentialityStrongerObligationPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Client-Transmitted Confidentiality Obligation Arising From Plaintiff Attorney Engagement" ;
proeth:appliedto "Confidential case information and forensic analysis",
"Plaintiff Former Client Adverse Party" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Absolute Loyalty Prohibition to Former Clients",
"Engineer mobility" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Attorney Z transmitted case documents, access to the plaintiff, and strategic case information to Engineer A in the course of the forensic engagement — creating a strong confidentiality obligation that survived the termination of the engagement and bars the subsequent defendant-side engagement" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "172" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T18:11:21.402975+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "172" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T18:11:21.402975+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The information transmitted by Attorney Z to Engineer A was client-transmitted in the course of a professional engagement, triggering the stronger confidentiality obligation — Engineer A cannot use this information, even implicitly through his analytical framework, in the subsequent defense engagement" ;
proeth:invokedby "Attorney Z Plaintiff-Side Retaining Attorney",
"Engineer A Forensic Expert Switching Sides" ;
proeth:principleclass "Client-Transmitted Confidentiality Stronger Obligation Principle" ;
proeth:sourcetext "He is hired as a consultant by Attorney Z to provide an engineering and safety analysis report and courtroom testimony in support of a plaintiff in a personal injury case." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The client-transmitted confidentiality obligation survives termination of the engagement and full payment of fees — the fact that Engineer A was paid does not extinguish the confidentiality obligation" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A is a forensic engineer. He is hired as a consultant by Attorney Z to provide an engineering and safety analysis report and courtroom testimony in support of a plaintiff in a personal injury case.",
"Engineer A's services are terminated and his fee is paid in full." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 172 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T18:28:40.766320"^^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
2026-03-01T18:11:21.402975+00:00
First case
172
Generated
2026-03-01T18:11:21.402975+00:00
Attributed to
Case 172 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T18:28:40.766320
Generated by
ProEthica Case 172 Extraction