Profile: As a result of a merger, the former Nexsen Pruet Jacobs & Pollard, a Columbia, South Carolina-based law firm, became in 2004 Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier PLLC. It acquired Sanford Holshouser Law Firm on January 5th, 2009. The Sanford Holshouser offices are still known as Sanford Holshouser. According to the National Law Journal's 2009 NLJ 250 rankings of firms based on size and prior to the Sanford Holshouser acquisition, Nexsen Pruet had 177 attorneys and was the 233rd largest firm in the United States that year. The firm has office locations throughout North and South Carolina, including Charleston and Greensboro, North Carolina. The firms thirty practice area groups include health care, employment, intellectual property, real estate, construction, corporate, finance, and taxation.