I am moving to another firm. My new firm has a client who is averse to a client in my former firm. I never worked on that case, but I did hear discussions and probably some confidential information. Would I be disqualified?

In the modern world where lawyers move around to firms fairly frequently, these conflict-of-interest issues arise. This is a somewhat difficult conflict because a lawyer who goes from one firm to the other could possibly be disqualified or their new firm could be disqualified even though the lawyer did not work on the file in the prior firm, but did hear confidential information.

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