Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry and Houston shareholder Barry Adkins were hit with a negligence lawsuit filed Jan. 6 by a former client who alleges negligence in advice the defendants gave him in connection with a change in the structure of his business.

That advice, plaintiff Karl J. Van Eps alleged in the petition filed in the 113th District Court in Harris County, cost him more than $5 million in his divorce settlement.