When Paul R. Berry joined Henkel Corporation as its chief legal officer in 2006, the international manufacturing company that makes and sells household products like Dial Soap and Purex detergent was using dozens of law firms as outside counsel.
With involvement in hundreds of pending lawsuits across the country, keeping track of the legal billing meant management headaches for Berry. In less than a year at the helm of the legal department for the company with $3.9 billion in U.S. sales, Berry decided it was time to consolidate the outside legal work to include just a couple of firms.
