By Carlyn Kolker
Houston-based Shell, the U.S. unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, used more than 400 law firms before paring down in 2003. Now it sends the majority of its work to 28 “strategic” partners.
Discounts on hourly rates are “a key part” of the arrangements, said William Lowrey, Shell’s general counsel.
Shell rates law firms based on factors such as cost- effectiveness, quality and commitment to diversity. Shell has dropped firms when “our needs and the needs of the firms didn’t match up,” Lowrey, 54, said.
Kreindler says the volume of work he sends to a firm gives him more sway on issues such as how to staff a case.
“The number of cases you place with a firm and your importance to the firm allows you to exercise more control,” Kreindler said.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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