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Legal practice management (R4871: April 2015) ? Professional mobility a perception of conflict of interest may arise if a specialist family law firm employs a lawyer who has worked previously as an associate to a judge in the Federal Circuit Court of Australia and steps need to be taken by the firm to put in place effective information barriers and undertakings by the partners of the firm and the lawyer concerned to ensure that confidential client information is not put at risk. Any ethical issues relating to the appearance of justice are a matter for the court to decide -- Personal injury (R4872: April 2015) ? Inadvertent disclosure. A law firm which receives inadvertently disclosed confidential information from the other side in a court action has an ethical duty to destroy and not use the confidential information. The law firm should disclose the fact of the inadvertent disclosure to its client, but not the details of the confidential information. In the absence of a court order preventing the law firm from doing so, the law firm may continue to act for its client in the court action