Switching Sides Prohibition Violated By Engineer A Accepting Defense Retention
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/172#Switching_Sides_Prohibition_Violated_By_Engineer_A_Accepting_Defense_Retention
Properties
Instance of
SwitchingSidesProhibitioninAdversarialProceedings
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SwitchingSidesProhibitioninAdversarialProceedings
Applied to
Personal injury litigation forensic engagement
Balancing with
Absolute Loyalty Prohibition to Former Clients
Engineer mobility
Concrete expression
Engineer A, having been retained by plaintiff's attorney and having conducted forensic review and analysis in the same personal injury case, accepted retention by the defendant's attorney in the same proceeding after his initial engagement was terminated — constituting a paradigmatic switching-sides violation
Confidence
0.97
Importance
high
Interpretation
The prohibition applies because Engineer A gained access to the plaintiff's confidential case information, documents, and strategic knowledge during the initial engagement; the subsequent defendant-side engagement in the same matter is prohibited regardless of the termination of the initial engagement and full payment of fees
Invoked by
Engineer A Forensic Expert Switching Sides
Tension resolution
The switching-sides prohibition overrides any argument that termination of the engagement freed Engineer A from further obligations — the confidential information acquired during the plaintiff-side engagement cannot be unlearned and contaminates any purportedly 'independent' analysis for the defense
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A agrees to provide the 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:Switching_Sides_Prohibition_Violated_By_Engineer_A_Accepting_Defense_Retention a proeth:SwitchingSidesProhibitioninAdversarialProceedings,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Switching Sides Prohibition Violated By Engineer A Accepting Defense Retention" ;
proeth:appliedto "Personal injury litigation forensic engagement" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Absolute Loyalty Prohibition to Former Clients",
"Engineer mobility" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A, having been retained by plaintiff's attorney and having conducted forensic review and analysis in the same personal injury case, accepted retention by the defendant's attorney in the same proceeding after his initial engagement was terminated — constituting a paradigmatic switching-sides violation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.97" ;
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 prohibition applies because Engineer A gained access to the plaintiff's confidential case information, documents, and strategic knowledge during the initial engagement; the subsequent defendant-side engagement in the same matter is prohibited regardless of the termination of the initial engagement and full payment of fees" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Forensic Expert Switching Sides" ;
proeth:principleclass "Switching Sides Prohibition in Adversarial Proceedings" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A agrees to provide the report." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The switching-sides prohibition overrides any argument that termination of the engagement freed Engineer A from further obligations — the confidential information acquired during the plaintiff-side engagement cannot be unlearned and contaminates any purportedly 'independent' analysis for the defense" ;
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 "2026-03-01T18:28:40.765827"^^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
2026-03-01T18:28:40.765827
Generated by
ProEthica Case 172 Extraction