Member-firm performs borings and backhoe excavations and gives a preliminary geotechnical engineering report for a developer for 600 residential lots located on flat and hillside terrain. The report was not labeled preliminary, and it was used against the member firm several years later.

confirmation-dependent recommendations, depositions, expert witnesses, forensic engineering, geotechnical engineering, hillside development, hired-gun experts, landslides, litigation, preliminary geotechnical-engineering report, residential projects