Attorney-Directed Confidentiality-Bound Safety-Discovering Engineer
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Attorney-DirectedConfidentiality-BoundSafety-DiscoveringEngineer
Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer is retained by a building owner's attorney to inspect a building and provide expert testimony in litigation, discovers serious structural defects constituting an immediate threat to tenant safety that are not part of the existing lawsuit, reports findings to the retaining attorney, and is then instructed by the attorney to maintain confidentiality over the safety-critical findings as part of the litigation — bearing an overriding obligation to disclose the imminent danger to appropriate authorities notwithstanding the attorney's confidentiality directive.
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A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer is retained by a building owner's attorney to inspect a building and provide expert testimony in litigation, discovers serious structural defects constituting an immediate threat to tenant safety that are not part of the existing lawsuit, reports findings to the retaining attorney, and is then instructed by the attorney to maintain confidentiality over the safety-critical findings as part of the litigation — bearing an overriding obligation to disclose the imminent danger to appropriate authorities notwithstanding the attorney's confidentiality directive.
Source Evidence
Source Text
The owner's attorney hired an engineer to inspect the building and give expert testimony in support of the owner
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Content Hash
369e57a202eef6f9...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
137
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T04:14:36.693030+00:00
First Discovered In Case
137
Generated
2026-03-01T04:14:36.693030+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 137 Extraction