Meta-model for Collaboration Modeling in Legal Sector

Abstract

Cost effective and best practice legal services are highly relying on the coordination of collaborativeworkflow activities as well as of several resources needed to perform these activities and their flow ofinformation exchanges among many different participants. In the context of ever increasing numbers of legalcases and involved stakeholders in multi-party collaborations, we have discovered the appropriateness of theadaptation of workflow management systems in legal sector to address the resulting complexities andperformance issues in legal service collaborations. In this work, a meta-model for legal service collaborationmodeling which includes the main semantics of modeling elements, has been introduced as the basis fordefining the choreography for sector collaboration with the objective of facilitating legal collaborationmodeling in such a way as to provide a useful input for the creation of legal workflow specifications forsetting up legal workflow management systems. The meta-model was developed based on BusinessTransaction View meta-model in UN/CEFACT’s recommendations for business collaborations. The proposedmodeling framework could facilitate and guide the complex legal collaboration modeling processes withpromising results in workflow coordination.

KEYWORDS: Meta-model, Legal Collaborations, Legal Activity Coordination