One of our most significant roles as lawyers is to serve our communities in meaningful ways, often by providing âpro bonoâ services to those in need. Pro bono is short for pro bono publico, and generally means âfor the public good.â The goal is to help meet the continued need for a more accessible legal system by providing free legal services to those who could not otherwise afford it.
A use case is a series of related interactions between a user (or more generally, an âactorâ) and a system that enables the user to achieve a goal. To phrase this definition in another way, a use case describes the systemâs behavior as it responds to a series of related requests from an actor.
Use case diagrams depict: 1  Use cases. 2  A use case describes a sequence of actions that provide something of measurable value to an actor and is drawn as a horizontal ellipse. 3  Actors. 4  An actor is a person, organization, or external system that plays a role in one or more interactions with your system.