In this article we examine three recent ethics opinions, two from the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics, and one from the Professional Ethics Committee of the New York City Bar Association (respectively, the NYS Bar Committee and the New York City Bar Committee). Since readers of this column may have noticed in the past that these columns are not always entirely complimentary about opinions issued by the Committees, it is important to note at the outset that all three of the opinions discussed here are well crafted and offer practitioners genuinely useful guidance on topics that arise quite frequently in practice.