Engineer A Absolute Loyalty Boundary Determination
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/179#Engineer_A_Absolute_Loyalty_Boundary_Determination
Properties
Instance of
AbsoluteLoyaltyProhibitionBoundaryDeterminationState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#AbsoluteLoyaltyProhibitionBoundaryDeterminationState
Active period
From the moment Engineer A's conduct was challenged as a perpetual loyalty violation through the Board's ruling that no absolute loyalty duty exists
Affected parties
Engineer A
Former clients
NSPE Board of Ethical Review
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Subject
Engineer A's post-engagement obligations to former clients in unrelated matters
Terminated by
Board determination that absolute perpetual loyalty is not required and would undermine engineer autonomy
Triggering event
Attorney's challenge and Board's review of whether 'faithful agent and trustee' standard bars adverse engagements in unrelated matters
Urgency level
medium
Source Evidence
Source text
Being a 'faithful agent and trustee' to a client does not obligate an engineer to a duty of absolute devotion in perpetuity
Text references
Being a 'faithful agent and trustee' to a client does not obligate an engineer to a duty of absolute devotion in perpetuity
Such an approach would be impractical and compromise the autonomy and professional independence of engineers
engineers do not have a duty of absolute loyalty under which the engineer can never take a position adverse to the interests of a former client
the matters at issue are not in any way related to any previous work Engineer A performed for either of her former clients
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Absolute Loyalty Boundary Determination" ;
proeth:activeperiod "From the moment Engineer A's conduct was challenged as a perpetual loyalty violation through the Board's ruling that no absolute loyalty duty exists" ;
proeth:affectedparties "Engineer A",
"Former clients",
"NSPE Board of Ethical Review" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "179" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T06:52:15.072528+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "179" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T06:52:15.072528+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Being a 'faithful agent and trustee' to a client does not obligate an engineer to a duty of absolute devotion in perpetuity" ;
proeth:stateclass "Absolute Loyalty Prohibition Boundary Determination State" ;
proeth:subject "Engineer A's post-engagement obligations to former clients in unrelated matters" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Board determination that absolute perpetual loyalty is not required and would undermine engineer autonomy" ;
proeth:textreferences "Being a 'faithful agent and trustee' to a client does not obligate an engineer to a duty of absolute devotion in perpetuity",
"Such an approach would be impractical and compromise the autonomy and professional independence of engineers",
"engineers do not have a duty of absolute loyalty under which the engineer can never take a position adverse to the interests of a former client",
"the matters at issue are not in any way related to any previous work Engineer A performed for either of her former clients" ;
proeth:triggeringevent "Attorney's challenge and Board's review of whether 'faithful agent and trustee' standard bars adverse engagements in unrelated matters" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "medium" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 179 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T07:10:12.474558"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 179 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
179
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T06:52:15.072528+00:00
First case
179
Generated
2026-03-01T06:52:15.072528+00:00
Attributed to
Case 179 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T07:10:12.474558
Generated by
ProEthica Case 179 Extraction