13. A method for providing legal workflow security conducted by a plurality of distributed workflow participants, the method comprising: permitting an administrator to (i) create user accounts for each of the participants, (ii) receiving associate one or more legal workflow role types with each of the accounts, and (iii) associate menu item permission privileges for a plurality of common menu items of a common legal workflow graphical interface with each of the types; providing the common interface to each of the participants, wherein the menu items are displayed to each of the participants via the common interface independent of the permission privileges associated with the type of the participant's account such that only the menu items for which the type of the participant's account has permission are active; and permitting one of the participants to create another account of a same type as the one of the participant's account and with same or fewer permission privileges as the type of the one of the participant's account.
13. A method for providing legal workflow security conducted by a plurality of distributed workflow participants, the method comprising: permitting an administrator to (i) create user accounts for each of the participants, (ii) receiving associate one or more legal workflow role types with each of the accounts, and (iii) associate menu item permission privileges for a plurality of common menu items of a common legal workflow graphical interface with each of the types; providing the common interface to each of the participants, wherein the menu items are displayed to each of the participants via the common interface independent of the permission privileges associated with the type of the participant's account such that only the menu items for which the type of the participant's account has permission are active; and permitting one of the participants to create another account of a same type as the one of the participant's account and with same or fewer permission privileges as the type of the one of the participant's account. 19. The method of claim 13 wherein providing the common interface to each of the participants further comprises generating features including text, graphics, hyperlinks, form fields, buttons, drop-down lists, tables, menu items or page sections.