A defendant attorney owes no duty to the plaintiff. The attorney's paramount duty is to the trial court, as a licensed attorney and officer of the court, and to his client. No cause of action in negligence can lie because the overriding public policy guarding free access to the courts and the fact that the attorney's legal duty is to his own client demands a finding that the attorney owes no duty to an adverse party that would give rise to a claim in negligence, whether to investigate fully the client's claim prior to filing suit or to avoid filing a suit which he knew or should have known was frivolous.