BER-Case-Precedent-Engineer-Departure-Client-Solicitation
Rs · Resource
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/178#BER-Case-Precedent-Engineer-Departure-Client-Solicitation
Properties
Instance of
Confidence
0.82
Created by
NSPE Board of Ethical Review
Document title
NSPE Board of Ethical Review – Prior Cases on Engineer Departure and Client Solicitation
Importance
medium
Used by
Ethics reviewers applying analogical reasoning to Engineer A's situation
Used in context
Prior BER decisions addressing analogous situations where engineers left firms to establish competing practices and subsequently solicited former employer clients, providing precedential reasoning on the ethical permissibility of such conduct absent non-compete agreements
Version
Various
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A decides to establish his own firm in Clover City without soliciting work from ABC's clients
Text references
Engineer A decides to establish his own firm in Clover City without soliciting work from ABC's clients
There was no 'no-compete agreement' between Engineer A and ABC Engineering Company
after a year has passed, Engineer A begins soliciting work from ABC's clients, including Clover City
TTL
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
178
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T08:21:50.784853+00:00
First case
178
Generated
2026-03-01T08:21:50.784853+00:00
Attributed to
Case 178 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T08:48:26.003128
Generated by
ProEthica Case 178 Extraction