How do I handle ethical gray areas under client pressure?

You handle most ethical questions well now. What still catches you are the gray areas, the ones with no clean answer, made worse by a client leaning on you to bend. That bind is one of the hardest parts of the work. Feeling it means your conscience is awake, which is exactly what you want. Pressure is designed to make the gray look simpler than it is, to push you toward what is convenient and call it fine. The steadying move is to slow down and separate two questions: what does the client want, and what is actually right. They are not always the same, and naming the gap out loud, even to yourself, takes away much of the pressure's power. When you hit one of these, do not decide alone in the heat of it. Name the concern plainly, buy time, and talk it through with a trusted colleague or the rules themselves. A gray area handled slowly and openly rarely becomes the trap. The traps are the ones decided fast, alone, under someone else's urgency.