California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 3 — Professions and Vocations Generally, Chapter 7 — Professional Engineers, Article 6 — Offenses Against the Chapter, Section 6789
(a) If a licensee who is retained as an expert witness enters into a nondisclosure agreement, that agreement shall not be construed to prevent the licensee from reporting a potential violation of the Professional Engineers Act to the board.
(b) This section shall not be construed to be, or act as, a waiver of any applicable attorney-client or attorney work product privileges.
Notes
Limits an expert-witness nondisclosure agreement from being interpreted to prevent a licensee from reporting a potential Professional Engineers Act violation to the board. Preserves any applicable attorney-client privilege and attorney work-product privilege, stating that the reporting protection neither constitutes nor operates as a waiver of those privileges.
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