For Attorney's Eyes Only.

Okay. It helps to get into my mindset while writing this if you hear the title in the voice of the musical snippet "For British Eyes Only" from Arrested Development. If you can't make the frame of reference, then so be it. We'll have to work to find common ground all the same. (Actually, for the briefest of moments I forgot that we live in 2019 when everything is but a link away, so here is what you want the title of the post to sound like: clip.

Ethics opinions are interesting creatures. They provide a group (usually) of people with law degrees with an opportunity to elaborate on otherwise potentially unsettled (or even unsettling) questions of application of the ethics rules. As a result, they can be used to set a trend in one direction or another toward either expanding or limiting the scope of a rule.