WASHINGTON (BUSINESS WIRE) -- In two distinct milestones that further establish their best-in-class information security, global legal solutions provider Clutch Group has been certified for compliance to European Union (EU) Safe Harbor guidelines, and its Bangalore offices have been certified for ISO/IEC 27001:2005

Shah describes one large law firm client that signed on with Clutch Group for an 80-attorney document review on a case related to the financial crisis, but kept it on shore. Three months into the project, as cost shot up, the firm tested Indian waters and moved five attorneys offshore. Three weeks later, the number doubled to 10, and two months later, it tripled to 30.

Washington, D.C. (Vocus) November 24, 2008 -- Clutch Group, a global provider of legal support solutions, has appointed Shanker Narayan as Chief Financial Officer, Andrew Titus as Vice President of Business Development & Marketing, and Gregory Brake as Vice President of Business Development.

On first sight, Abhi, a slim 29-year-old, looks no different from the millions of young Indians trying to make their way in life. His surname could not be more common; more Gujaratis are called Shah than anything else, unless it is Patel. His Harvard MBA seems even more conventional.

The conference, entitled ''Legal Process Outsourcing in India - What You Need to Know About Who, How, Why, and Why Not,'' was held at the Hyatt Regency Orlando International Airport on November 14 and featured Clutch Group, a leading global legal solutions company with offices in Washington DC, New York, Chicago, Cleveland, and Bangalore.

Continuing its rapid growth in the legal services industry, Clutch Group, has opened an expansive and state-of-the-art turnkey project center in the heart of the nation’s capital. The 5,000-square-foot office is located in the National Press Building and is equipped with the most advanced technology and security needed for high-quality off-site legal support solutions. The global legal solutions company unveiled its new offices at a launch celebration on October 30. Honorable Robert Livingston, former Speaker-elect of the US House of Representatives, and Mike Ross, former General Counsel of Citibank and Clutch Group Advisory Board member, amongst others graced the occasion.

Today at 29, Abhi Shah is one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in America. He heads Clutch Group, a top legal solutions company that he founded 2 years ago. Clutch Group has become the largest and highest rated Global Legal Solutions provider in world, he asserts.

Georgia-born , Gujarat-raised Abhi Shah, founder of Clutch — voted top Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) company from among 80 LPOs worldwide — says he and a classmate came up with 38 different business ideas during Think Week, a concept they borrowed from Bill Gates.

SUBSTANCE VS. FLASH .“The 24-7 operational environment you can have between India and the United States certainly adds value,” says Clutch CEO Abhi Shah. “For particular litigation, certain sensitive projects, turn-around time is extremely important and this model cuts the time down to half. So [the growth of outsourcing] is inevitable for many reasons; cost is not the only driver.”

WASHINGTON (June 23, 2008) – Clutch Group, a global provider of legal support services, was rated the top Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) company worldwide in the 2008 Black Book Top Vendors survey conducted by the Brown-Wilson Group, an outsourcing consultant firm and publisher of the Black Book.

From SOX to subprime, major developments of the past few years confirm outsourcing as a fact of life for law firms. It all comes as no surprise to Abhi Shah, CEO of The Clutch Group, which, with offices in Bangalore and throughout the United States, provides a distinctively global outsourcing strategy. The marketing message is pretty clear: Shah calls it the “Inevitability Concept,”

The idea that companies or law firms would turn to legal outsourcing providers for help during busy season seems foreign to many. But Abhi Shah, chief executive officer of legal services provider the Clutch Group, says the subprime crisis is shining a new light on the outsourcing of legal services.Whether it's corporate in-house counsel defending a company against a class action lawsuit or law firms dealing with an influx of subprime-related cases, Shah expects Clutch's model will prosper as attorneys become inundated with subprime-related work and search for available outsourcing partners who can assist them with everything from research to legal document review.

Bad times for some American companies is turning into good times for India’s legal offshoring industry. For reasons largely economic and partly cultural, India’s legal process outsourcing, or LPO, services providers have seen a sizeable uptick in business since the US economy has faltered. In particular, firms that handle support functions, such as reviewing documents and researching witnesses for US litigation, have enjoyed the biggest increases amid mounting disputes over who knew what and when in the mortgage and related markets meltdown.