Engineer A Former Client Confidentiality Perpetuation Post-Termination
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/172#Engineer_A_Former_Client_Confidentiality_Perpetuation_Post-Termination
Properties
Instance of
FormerClientConfidentialityPerpetuationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FormerClientConfidentialityPerpetuationObligation
Case context
Engineer A had access to the plaintiff's confidential documents, information, and cooperative analytical access during his plaintiff-side engagement. After termination, he accepted defense retention, bringing that confidential knowledge into an adverse engagement.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to continue protecting the plaintiff's confidential information, documents, and facts obtained during his prior engagement even after the termination of his relationship with Attorney Z, and to refrain from using that information in service of the opposing party.
Temporal scope
From termination of engagement with Attorney Z through at least the conclusion of the personal injury proceeding
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A throughout his first analysis had access to information, documents, etc., that were made available to him by the plaintiff and plaintiff's attorney in a cooperative and mutually beneficial manner.
Text references
Engineer A throughout his first analysis had access to information, documents, etc., that were made available to him by the plaintiff and plaintiff's attorney in a cooperative and mutually beneficial manner.
we must recognize that while Engineer A may not currently have a professional relationship with a former client, he still has an ethical obligation to that client to protect certain confidential information and facts, as well as a certain duty of trust and loyalty.
TTL
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case172:Engineer_A_Former_Client_Confidentiality_Perpetuation_Post-Termination a proeth:FormerClientConfidentialityPerpetuationObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Former Client Confidentiality Perpetuation Post-Termination" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case172:Engineer_A_Forensic_Expert_Witness_Objectivity_Correctly_Applied_Initial_Engagement ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case172:Engineer_A_Confidential_Plaintiff_Information_Held_Post-Termination ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case172:Engineer_A_Termination_Non-Cure_of_Same-Matter_Adversarial_Conflict_Violation ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A had access to the plaintiff's confidential documents, information, and cooperative analytical access during his plaintiff-side engagement. After termination, he accepted defense retention, bringing that confidential knowledge into an adverse engagement." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case172:Confidentiality_Duration_Indeterminacy_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_Post-Relationship_Obligations,
case172:Confidentiality_Principle_Invoked_for_Plaintiff_Information_Accessed_by_Engineer_A ;
proeth:discoveredincase "172" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T18:19:02.353557+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "172" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T18:19:02.353557+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Former Client Confidentiality Perpetuation Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to continue protecting the plaintiff's confidential information, documents, and facts obtained during his prior engagement even after the termination of his relationship with Attorney Z, and to refrain from using that information in service of the opposing party." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A throughout his first analysis had access to information, documents, etc., that were made available to him by the plaintiff and plaintiff's attorney in a cooperative and mutually beneficial manner." ;
proeth:temporalscope "From termination of engagement with Attorney Z through at least the conclusion of the personal injury proceeding" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A throughout his first analysis had access to information, documents, etc., that were made available to him by the plaintiff and plaintiff's attorney in a cooperative and mutually beneficial manner.",
"we must recognize that while Engineer A may not currently have a professional relationship with a former client, he still has an ethical obligation to that client to protect certain confidential information and facts, as well as a certain duty of trust and loyalty." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 172 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T18:28:40.774949"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
172
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T18:19:02.353557+00:00
First case
172
Generated
2026-03-01T18:19:02.353557+00:00
Attributed to
Case 172 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T18:28:40.774949
Generated by
ProEthica Case 172 Extraction