History
“Technology and law are like water and oil, hard to mix together,” said Areté co-founder Arthur Crivella. “Yet, the demands of 21st century litigation and legal practice demand, indeed intrinsically depend upon technology. The days of arms length views of technology and how they are incorporated into legal practice are over.”
“Lawyers were practicing an art, rather than employing methods and science. They were billing lots of hours, but not focusing on a method of how to win a case,” explained Wayne J. West, Crivella’s partner and co-founder.
Generally, in the last 25 years the business world has witnessed the use of technology to alter fundamentally how products are made, services are rendered, and how people work and communicate. While such advances in the business environment have been measured, development in the legal community has not kept pace. Recognizing the need for processes to advance the needs of the legal community, Areté was instrumental in initiating the development of innovative technology.
Areté continues to lead this sweep of change supported by the expertise found within its family of companies. The parent ASE Edge is the manufacturing, engineering and computer science company from which the philosophy of process engineering is drawn; Terra Alta, embodies this philosophy by offering insurance products to corporate securities, risk management and human resource departments; and Areté, the legal entity, provides superior services drawing upon the knowledge, benefits and resources of the entire corporate family.
At a time when most legal documents were still in traditional physical form, Crivella and West grabbed the attention of the legal world by developing a new systems-engineering approach for managing litigation. They eliminated paper, by converting legal material to a digital form and organized case documents for rapid accessibility in court. Requests for this novel technique poured in, and Areté Legal was born.
Areté Legal’s patented technology, “Knowledge Kiosk” as it has become widely known, is an online document repository and work center where legal teams manage litigation and exchange information. Some of the world’s largest companies identified Areté as the leader in electronic discovery and used the Knowledge Kiosk for pharmaceutical liability and asbestos exposure cases.
Our technology continues to be successfully implemented by a variety of entities including Fortune 500 companies and nationally prominent law firms for matters including products liability, complex tort litigation, securities investigations, bankruptcy cases and tax matters. Areté offers this superior technology to plaintiff firms, regulatory agencies, defense counsel, and in-house legal departments. With its family of companies, Areté has poised itself to continue to lead the industry with innovative products in legal process systems integration.
“Lawyers were practicing an art, rather than employing methods and science. They were billing lots of hours, but not focusing on a method of how to win a case,” explained Wayne J. West, Crivella’s partner and co-founder.
Generally, in the last 25 years the business world has witnessed the use of technology to alter fundamentally how products are made, services are rendered, and how people work and communicate. While such advances in the business environment have been measured, development in the legal community has not kept pace. Recognizing the need for processes to advance the needs of the legal community, Areté was instrumental in initiating the development of innovative technology.
Areté continues to lead this sweep of change supported by the expertise found within its family of companies. The parent ASE Edge is the manufacturing, engineering and computer science company from which the philosophy of process engineering is drawn; Terra Alta, embodies this philosophy by offering insurance products to corporate securities, risk management and human resource departments; and Areté, the legal entity, provides superior services drawing upon the knowledge, benefits and resources of the entire corporate family.
At a time when most legal documents were still in traditional physical form, Crivella and West grabbed the attention of the legal world by developing a new systems-engineering approach for managing litigation. They eliminated paper, by converting legal material to a digital form and organized case documents for rapid accessibility in court. Requests for this novel technique poured in, and Areté Legal was born.
Areté Legal’s patented technology, “Knowledge Kiosk” as it has become widely known, is an online document repository and work center where legal teams manage litigation and exchange information. Some of the world’s largest companies identified Areté as the leader in electronic discovery and used the Knowledge Kiosk for pharmaceutical liability and asbestos exposure cases.
Our technology continues to be successfully implemented by a variety of entities including Fortune 500 companies and nationally prominent law firms for matters including products liability, complex tort litigation, securities investigations, bankruptcy cases and tax matters. Areté offers this superior technology to plaintiff firms, regulatory agencies, defense counsel, and in-house legal departments. With its family of companies, Areté has poised itself to continue to lead the industry with innovative products in legal process systems integration.