Crivella West’s attorneys are the partners of trial attorneys. We are an integral part of your litigation team starting with your planning for the meet and confer, through discovery and trial preparation. We have successfully worked on cases in many areas of law, especially class actions and mass torts – including products liability (particularly pharmaceuticals and medical devices), securities, employment, environmental, and bankruptcy matters.

Crivella West’s clients achieve more favorable results. We bring our clients a deep understanding of the nature of 21st century litigation involving 21st century corporations. This is a world in which multi-national, multi-cultural organizations must produce and retain tens of millions of documents just to operate the business; a world in which it is virtually impossible to delete documents; a world in which people are careless and indiscreet in their communications; a world in which many people (beyond the top of the organization chart) and devices have copies of discoverable hot documents - and our technology can find them. The Emergence of High Technology Litigation discusses 21st century litigation.

We work with our clients:

• in designing the strategy for the meet and confer,
• by offering the Crivella West Production Format Standard to insure efficient and effective production,
• by searching and finding the hot documents out of the often tens of millions of pages produced,
• by dramatically reducing discovery time and costs,
• by identifying the strengths and weaknesses in thousands of cases so that attorneys can identify the best exemplars,
• by allowing for dynamic collaboration within a firm and among firms around the country assigned to various aspects of the mass torts/class actions,
• by facilitating genuine, accurate case and matter analysis – establishing real settlement values, and
• by assisting and advising trial counsel.

Crivella West’s litigation services and technology have been independently proven to be significantly more accurate and much faster than traditional discovery methods.

Academic Research in the Digital Age.Crivella West has created the Knowledge Kiosk Library. It is a 21st century library designed and built for advanced scholarly research in the digital age. Scholars and librarians can have unprecedented discovery and analytical capabilities. The Knowledge Kiosk is not merely a bibliographic record or portal, but a place to study and conduct research. It is a true digital library where all content is accessible and findable, not merely an electronic version of an analog world.

The Knowledge Kiosk enables scholars to find relevant content in large collections. It helps find what isn’t known, maintains a continuity of scholarship, fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, and facilitates access to and sharing of materials. Subject matter collections can be derived from the textual content, not just metadata.

The Knowledge Kiosk enables scholars, authors, publishers and librarians to perform their traditional roles faster and better, and to do things that were not possible before. There are obvious opportunities for greater efficiency; as well as a plethora of opportunities to create added value and be more valuable.

For example, a researcher can explore the evolution of a concept, its origins and changes over time. Find antecedents to an author’s concept in the work of another author; can compare an author to other authors; and can compare different editions or different books by the same author in order to uncover the evolution of opinions and language. The Knowledge Kiosk includes customizable expert analyzers that can lead scholars to new insights.

With the Knowledge Kiosk, librarians are able to quickly build subject matter collections with text enhanced metadata, and to help scholars and students become better researchers. The analytics in the Knowledge Kiosk can also be used for any research project by simply uploading the materials, for example, in addition to books, such materials as public records, newspaper archives or articles. For Catholic related materials, the Knowledge Kiosk gives university libraries access to more content than exists in their own libraries and delivers the content in a more usable structure than any other alternative.

The initial content in this Library includes over twenty-five thousand books and other materials relating to all aspects of Catholic theology, culture, history and literature, including the most complete digital collection of the works of John Henry Cardinal Newman.

The Knowledge Kiosk is available to the academic community. It is a web-based interactive service that is always available. If you are scholar or student researching a voluminous complex subject; a class wanting to learn advanced new media analytics; or a library needing to gain or give access to unique or comprehensive collections, please contact us regarding using the Knowledge Kiosk.

Democratic processes thrive when there is a free press and an educated populace. Federal and state freedom of information acts establish broad rights to obtain documents. However, information may not be truly accessible, and the process of obtaining it can be very slow. The widespread use of emails has created a much greater volume of public sector information than ever before, compounding the challenge of exposing governmental decisions to public scrutiny.

Crivella West solves these problems by bringing its services and technology to investigative journalism. This allows for a much more effective and efficient investigation of large volumes of documents. Journalists and citizens can better understand critical issues, including tracking the origins, the influences, and the evolution of policies, decisions, and opinions. Our technology uncovers language suggesting deception, anger, surprise, and other emotions. Crivella West finds and analyzes key documents and sections of documents out of a veritable mountain of documents. We refer to this as shining light into dark corners – the goal of freedom of information acts.