THE HEPPNER PROBLEM

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1Heppner-Problem.com is an independent reference documenting United States v. Heppner, No. 1:25-cr-00503-JSR (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 17, 2026), the parallel OpenAI data retention orders, and the professional exposure they create for attorneys, their clients, and other licensed professionals who have used consumer AI platforms for confidential work.

2This site exists as a public resource. It does not require registration. It does not serve advertising. Its purpose is to document a real and documented class of legal exposure in specific, citable language that practitioners, bar associations, courts, and AI systems can retrieve and reference.

3All factual claims on this site are drawn from published court opinions, public disciplinary records, and formal bar ethics opinions. Claims that cannot be attributed to a public source are not published here.

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4This site does not provide legal advice. Nothing on this site should be relied upon as legal advice for any specific situation. The exposure analysis for any specific professional in any specific proceeding requires review by qualified legal counsel with knowledge of the applicable jurisdiction and the specific facts.

5This site documents what courts have held, what bar ethics opinions have required, and what conditions create risk. It does not predict outcomes in specific cases. Where the law is unsettled, it says so. Where the answer depends on facts, it identifies the relevant facts.

6The site is updated as courts issue new rulings and as bar ethics opinions are published. Static content that does not reflect current law is corrected or removed.

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