Engineer A Expert Witness Engineering Non-Advocate Objectivity Across Multi-Party Engagements

@prefix case179: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/179#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> . @prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> . @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> . case179:Engineer_A_Expert_Witness_Engineering_Non-Advocate_Objectivity_Across_Multi-Party_Engagements a proeth:ExpertWitnessEngineeringNon-AdvocateObjectivityObligation, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Engineer A Expert Witness Engineering Non-Advocate Objectivity Across Multi-Party Engagements" ; proeth-core:competesWith case179:Engineer_A_Non-Absolute_Former_Client_Loyalty_Recognition_in_ABC_Manufacturing_Adverse_Engagement ; proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case179:Attorney_Advocacy_Parallel_Imputation_Against_Engineer_A, case179:Engineer_A_Expert_Independence_Under_Adversarial_Challenge ; proeth-core:prevailsOver case179:Engineer_A_Non-Absolute_Former_Client_Loyalty_Recognition_in_ABC_Manufacturing_Adverse_Engagement ; proeth:casecontext "Opposing counsel challenged Engineer A's engagement by implying she had acted improperly by serving parties on both sides of litigation across unrelated matters, attempting to draw a parallel to the legal profession's institutionalized plaintiff/defense bar structure. The Board rejected this characterization." ; proeth:compliancestatus "met" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ; proeth:confidence "0.91" ; proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case179:Adversarial_Context_Objectivity_Maintained_By_Engineer_A, case179:Engineer_Non-Advocate_Objectivity_Maintained_Across_Multi-Party_Engagements ; proeth:discoveredincase "179" ; proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ; proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T07:01:53.198676+00:00" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "179" ; proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T07:01:53.198676+00:00" ; proeth:importance "high" ; proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ; proeth:obligationclass "Expert Witness Engineering Non-Advocate Objectivity Obligation" ; proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to maintain objective, technically grounded professional opinions in each of her three engagements — two for ABC Manufacturing and one for Attorney X — functioning as an assistant to the trier of fact rather than as an advocate for any party, and to resist the opposing attorney's attempt to characterize her as operating within a plaintiff's bar or defense bar structure analogous to the legal profession." ; proeth:sourcetext "the attorney was attempting to draw a parallel between the legal profession, where there is an institutionalized 'plaintiff's bar' and 'defense bar,' and the engineering profession" ; proeth:temporalscope "Throughout all three litigation engagements and specifically during cross-examination in the product liability matter" ; proeth:textreferences "the attorney was attempting to draw a parallel between the legal profession, where there is an institutionalized 'plaintiff's bar' and 'defense bar,' and the engineering profession", "they should not be expected to compromise their professional independence and autonomy", "while engineers may find themselves at times working within the confines of the legal adversarial profession, unlike attorneys, they are not 'advocates' in rendering their professional services" ; proeth:wasattributedto "Case 179 Extraction" ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T07:10:12.482536"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 179 Extraction" .