XML Legal Document Utility
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Software Design Document Date: 2007-04-20
SDD-XLDU
3 Use Cases
Use-Case Model Survey
3.1 Actors
3.1.1 Document Manager
3.1.1.1 Information: The Document Manager is a user who works with legal documents.
This is an abstraction of the specific users as they all perform similar actions, but for
different reasons. For example, a court clerk and an attorney both sign documents, but
an attorney does so to state that they created or agree to the documents and the court
clerk does so to state that the document has been received and is now secured with a
secure hash to detect modification. The mechanics and the processes used for each
are the same to apply their respective digital signatures, but the intent and meaning of
each application of a digital signature is different. The specific actors who fall into the
broader category of document manager are:
3.1.1.1.1 Judge
3.1.1.1.2 Court Clerk
3.1.1.1.3 Attorney
3.1.1.1.4 Paralegal Professional
3.1.1.1.5 Pro Se Party
3.1.1.2 Additional Information: The Document User is the only user seen in the use cases
considered essential to the System Under Design. Of the three essential use cases,
Create New Document, Generated Document Modification, and Enter Document Into
Workflow, the use cases considered the highest priority, Create New Document and
Generated Document Modification, have been focused on. Following diagrams in
Section 3.3 contain current and future implemented use cases for illustrative purposes
of future directions for the System Under Design.
3.1.2 System Under Design
3.1.2.1 The System Under Design is the XML Legal Document System that is being
created. This actor represents the system and the actions that it takes.
3.1.3 Administrative User
3.1.3.1 Information: The Administrative User is a user who administers the system by
overseeing accounts creation and administration.
3.1.4 Public User
3.1.4.1 Information: The Public User is a generic user to represent a person who is not an
attorney or pro se party who will be creating documents but has a valid reason to view
and research a document or set of documents in relationship to one or more cases and
has been validated through security measures such as signing up for an account in
person at the Court Clerk's Office and providing proof of identity.
3.2 List of Use Cases
3.2.1 Document Manager User Use Cases
3.2.1.1 Create New Document (Overview)
3.2.1.2 Create New Document(Detail)
3.2.1.3 Generated Document Modification (Overview)
3.2.1.4 Generated Document Modification (Detail)– Element From Data Set
3.2.1.5 Enter Document Into Workflow(Overview)
3.2.1.6 Enter Document Into Workflow(Detail)
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