Court Opinion

ID: 9731323
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 15:42:06.090055+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:16.947521
License: Public Domain

BROSKY, Judge,
concurring.
I agree with the majority that the complaint can be read to state a cause of action for wrongful use of civil process, and, therefore join the opinion to the extent of that holding.
An attorney is employed as an agent for purposes of legal representation by the client. He or she acts as the representative of the client and, for the most part, is bound by ethical considerations to do as the client wishes. To impute the motivations of the client to the attorney would be grossly unfair to attorneys everywhere and greatly impede *314our legal system. Thus, only when the attorney can be legitimately found to be abusing the civil process should he or she be found liable upon a cause of action. As my colleague Judge Olszewski notes in his concurrence, an attorney is quite susceptible to allegations of wrongfully using the civil process because attorneys are charged with the obligation of instituting actions on behalf of their clients. We do not want to see an environment develop that allows an attorney’s motivations to be questioned and a lawsuit filed against the attorney every time a case is lost.