Realpolitik: The individual worker is an expendable cog. The market must be fed and protected at ALL costs. CDC is co-opted and its ambiguous messaging is meant to lull the currently-functioning worker into a false sense of safety and normalcy.
Apparently, while normal cheerful folk are strolling down the daffodil lane, grumpy, limbic-challenged people are watching for snakes and piles of sabre-tool tiger poo and telling everyone to run.
Im your excitement to start work, do NOT fluff over Conflicts process including sending new client/matter around to colleagues to check out!
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As example, if you have a staff person who runs confl7cts checks against your firm database, things may look OK, but there is always that one time your colleague is about to file a lawsuit against your would-be client's dad.
Better to bow out early.
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And please don't pester the conflicts staffer. They are doing this for your own good and know more about this area than you do. Get a cappuccino or something.