Engineer A Proceeding-Duration Former Client Loyalty Persistence Obligation Violation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/172#Engineer_A_Proceeding-Duration_Former_Client_Loyalty_Persistence_Obligation_Violation
Properties
Instance of
Proceeding-DurationFormerClientLoyaltyPersistenceObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Proceeding-DurationFormerClientLoyaltyPersistenceObligation
Case context
The Board held that Engineer A's duty of trust and loyalty to the plaintiff persisted for at least the duration of the legal proceeding, even after formal termination of his engagement with Attorney Z. This duty was violated by his acceptance of defense retention in the same proceeding.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to maintain a duty of trust and loyalty to the plaintiff as his former client for at least the full duration of the personal injury proceeding, precluding him from accepting adverse retention in the same matter during that period.
Temporal scope
For the full duration of the personal injury proceeding in which Engineer A was originally engaged
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
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.
Text references
How long that duty of trust and loyalty must be maintained we are not prepared to state at this time. However, we are certainly willing to state that such a duty exists for the duration of one legal proceeding.
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_Proceeding-Duration_Former_Client_Loyalty_Persistence_Obligation_Violation a proeth:Proceeding-DurationFormerClientLoyaltyPersistenceObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Proceeding-Duration Former Client Loyalty Persistence Obligation Violation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case172:Engineer_A_Termination_Non-Cure_of_Same-Matter_Adversarial_Conflict_Violation ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case172:Engineer_A_Continuing_Post-Termination_Loyalty_to_Plaintiffs_Attorney ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case172:Engineer_A_Termination_Non-Cure_of_Same-Matter_Adversarial_Conflict_Violation ;
proeth:casecontext "The Board held that Engineer A's duty of trust and loyalty to the plaintiff persisted for at least the duration of the legal proceeding, even after formal termination of his engagement with Attorney Z. This duty was violated by his acceptance of defense retention in the same proceeding." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case172:Loyalty_Principle_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_Post-Termination_Obligations_to_Plaintiff,
case172:Proceeding-Duration_Loyalty_Persistence_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_Post-Termination_Obligations ;
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 "Proceeding-Duration Former Client Loyalty Persistence Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to maintain a duty of trust and loyalty to the plaintiff as his former client for at least the full duration of the personal injury proceeding, precluding him from accepting adverse retention in the same matter during that period." ;
proeth:sourcetext "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:temporalscope "For the full duration of the personal injury proceeding in which Engineer A was originally engaged" ;
proeth:textreferences "How long that duty of trust and loyalty must be maintained we are not prepared to state at this time. However, we are certainly willing to state that such a duty exists for the duration of one legal proceeding.",
"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" ;
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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
2026-03-01T18:28:40.775610
Generated by
ProEthica Case 172 Extraction