Should attorneys ever break a professional rule to comply with its spirit? Thankfully, Formal Ethics Opinion 468, published by the ABA Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility in October 2014, resolved one such ethical Catch-22 to the benefit of sole practitioners selling their practices under Rule 1.17 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. The recent opinion clarifies that selling attorneys may assist buyers for a reasonable period of time despite Rule 1.17’s clear contemporaneous retirement clause.