Litigation Attorney Directing Engineer Confidentiality Over Safety Findings
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#LitigationAttorneyDirectingEngineerConfidentialityOverSafetyFindings
Definition
An attorney client role in which a lawyer representing a building owner in tenant litigation retains a professional engineer to inspect the building and provide expert testimony, and upon receiving the engineer's report of serious structural defects constituting an immediate threat to tenant safety — defects not part of the existing lawsuit — instructs the engineer to maintain confidentiality over those findings as part of the litigation strategy, thereby generating a conflict between attorney-client privilege and the engineer's overriding obligation to disclose imminent danger to appropriate authorities.
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Definition
An attorney client role in which a lawyer representing a building owner in tenant litigation retains a professional engineer to inspect the building and provide expert testimony, and upon receiving the engineer's report of serious structural defects constituting an immediate threat to tenant safety — defects not part of the existing lawsuit — instructs the engineer to maintain confidentiality over those findings as part of the litigation strategy, thereby generating a conflict between attorney-client privilege and the engineer's overriding obligation to disclose imminent danger to appropriate authorities.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] A legal professional client role that retains an engineer as an expert witness or forensic consultant in litigation, bears authority to direct the scope of the engagement, and instructs the engineer to maintain confidentiality over findings that implicate public health and safety, thereby generating a conflict between the engineer's duty of confidentiality to the client and the paramount obligation to protect public welfare.
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
332bb6bf378d9c0b...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
137
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T05:19:15.017843+00:00
First Discovered In Case
137
Generated
2026-03-01T05:19:15.017843+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 137 Extraction