Clorox Legal Chief Uses Outside Firms as Covid ‘Surge Support’

Clorox Co.‘s increase in cleaning product sales during the coronavirus pandemic showed how essential its outside lawyers can be, even prompting the company to bring some in-house temporarily, according to Angela Hilt, Clorox’s chief legal officer.

“Firms that can provide us with secondees at reasonable rates are going to have an edge in doing business with us going forward,” Hilt said.

Demand for Clorox’s disinfecting products jumped at the start of the pandemic and spiked by up to 500% last summer. The Oakland, Calif.-based company has worked with eight key outside firms to help manage the ensuing legal issues, ...