Proceeding-Duration Loyalty Persistence Invoked for Engineer A Post-Termination Obligations
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/172#Proceeding-Duration_Loyalty_Persistence_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_Post-Termination_Obligations
Properties
Instance of
Proceeding-DurationLoyaltyPersistencePrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Proceeding-DurationLoyaltyPersistencePrinciple
Applied to
Engineer A's post-termination obligations to the plaintiff during the ongoing personal injury litigation
Balancing with
Absolute Loyalty Prohibition to Former Clients
Engineer Professional Autonomy and Independence Preservation Principle
Concrete expression
The Board established that Engineer A's duty of trust and loyalty to the plaintiff — as his former client — persisted for at least the full duration of the personal injury litigation, even though his formal engagement had been terminated, creating a floor below which post-relationship loyalty obligations cannot fall
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Interpretation
While the Board declined to specify the outer limit of post-relationship loyalty duration, it established a clear minimum: the duty persists for the duration of the specific proceeding in which the engineer was retained and gained confidential access
Invoked by
Engineer A Forensic Expert Switching Sides
Plaintiff Former Client Adverse Party
Tension resolution
The proceeding-duration floor prevailed over the argument that termination of the formal engagement dissolved all loyalty obligations; the Board rejected the 'clean slate' argument while declining to specify how long beyond the proceeding the obligation might extend
Source Evidence
Source text
we are certainly willing to state that such a duty exists for the duration of one legal proceeding.
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:Proceeding-Duration_Loyalty_Persistence_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_Post-Termination_Obligations a proeth:Proceeding-DurationLoyaltyPersistencePrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Proceeding-Duration Loyalty Persistence Invoked for Engineer A Post-Termination Obligations" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer A's post-termination obligations to the plaintiff during the ongoing personal injury litigation" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Absolute Loyalty Prohibition to Former Clients",
"Engineer Professional Autonomy and Independence Preservation Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "The Board established that Engineer A's duty of trust and loyalty to the plaintiff — as his former client — persisted for at least the full duration of the personal injury litigation, even though his formal engagement had been terminated, creating a floor below which post-relationship loyalty obligations cannot fall" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "172" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T18:17:07.586626+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "172" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T18:17:07.586626+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "While the Board declined to specify the outer limit of post-relationship loyalty duration, it established a clear minimum: the duty persists for the duration of the specific proceeding in which the engineer was retained and gained confidential access" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Forensic Expert Switching Sides",
"Plaintiff Former Client Adverse Party" ;
proeth:principleclass "Proceeding-Duration Loyalty Persistence Principle" ;
proeth:sourcetext "we are certainly willing to state that such a duty exists for the duration of one legal proceeding." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The proceeding-duration floor prevailed over the argument that termination of the formal engagement dissolved all loyalty obligations; the Board rejected the 'clean slate' argument while declining to specify how long beyond the proceeding the obligation might extend" ;
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" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T18:28:40.773704"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 172 Extraction" .
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
172
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T18:17:07.586626+00:00
First case
172
Generated
2026-03-01T18:17:07.586626+00:00
Attributed to
Case 172 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T18:28:40.773704
Generated by
ProEthica Case 172 Extraction