Forensic Expert Switching Sides Engineer
Class
c1e01515
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ForensicExpertSwitchingSidesEngineer
Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer is initially retained by one party in adversarial litigation to provide forensic analysis and expert opinion, is terminated or withdraws without producing a favorable report, and is subsequently approached by the opposing party to provide a separate and independent analysis, bearing obligations to decline the second engagement due to irresolvable conflicts of interest arising from confidential information, documents, and knowledge gained during the first engagement — regardless of whether the prior relationship has formally ended.
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Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer is initially retained by one party in adversarial litigation to provide forensic analysis and expert opinion, is terminated or withdraws without producing a favorable report, and is subsequently approached by the opposing party to provide a separate and independent analysis, bearing obligations to decline the second engagement due to irresolvable conflicts of interest arising from confidential information, documents, and knowledge gained during the first engagement — regardless of whether the prior relationship has formally ended.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer is retained by one party in an adversarial legal or quasi-legal dispute to supervise physical testing programs (e.g., test pile driving) intended to evaluate disputed design or construction claims, bearing obligations of completeness, objectivity, and full disclosure of all material findings — including equipment failures, anomalous test conditions, and alternative analytical interpretations — even when such findings are unfavorable to the retaining client, and bearing a prohibition against selective use of technical facts to serve adversarial interests.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A agreed to provide the report
TTL
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Metadata
Ontology
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Content Hash
c1e0151549d8d7f3...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
106
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-28T00:41:19.072400+00:00
First Discovered In Case
106
Generated
2026-02-28T00:41:19.072400+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 106 Extraction