American Family Mutual Insurance v. Zavala

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• holding that attorney, as agent for a client, generally cannot tortiously interfere with a contract to which the client is a party
• “[A] client and lawyer, acting in an agency relationship, constitute a single entity.” Therefore, an attorney, “if acting within the scope of his or her representation, is immune from liability for tortious interference with a client’s contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).