In Panoutsopoulos v. Chambliss (2007) 157 Cal.App.4th 297, the court held attorneys representing a property owner seeking to evict its lessees or renegotiate the terms of the lease did not step out of their role as advocates by writing letters regarding plaintiff lessees' purported breaches of the lease and in giving plaintiffs three-day notices. (Id. at p. 308.) Although the attorneys had also attempted to induce a plumber to misrepresent plaintiffs' responsibility for a drainage problem on the premises, the court decided the conduct was not actionable because the plumber refused to write a false report and plaintiffs were not harmed by the attorneys' conduct. (Ibid.)