You are an engineer who has experience as an expert witness. You have been contacted by two attorneys working on the same case. The first attorney wants to hire you as an expert witness to support an inventor who claims to have developed a device that operate in a cycle and delivers 1000 Btu while consuming only 320 Btu per cycle. The second attorney wants to hire you as an expert witness against the same inventor for allegedly defrauding inventors with the invention described by the first attorney.
Please prepare a one – paragraph response to the following question.
A) Whose expert witness would you prefer to be? Why?
B) In deciding which attorney to help as an expert witness, what ethical questions will you ask?