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Jury Awards $5 Million over Bad Legal Advice COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A Richland County jury has awarded $5.5 million to a man who said he got bad legal advice. Frank Robertson went to the Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier law firm in 1998 and asked for advice on starting his own commercial pecan cracking company. Robertson said he had worked for Machine Design Incorporated from 1983 through 1998 and helped develop a commercial pecan cracking machine. Robertson's suit says Nexsen Pruet told him he could compete against his former employer. But that advice was wrong and Machine Design sued Robertson. He says he lost $2 million in business, plus $300,000 in legal costs. A lawyer representing Nexsen Pruet would not say if the firm will ask that the decision be overturned. But he said a hearing is expected in two weeks.
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