We Are Now the World's Largest Open Legal Workflow Database

Today we are proud to announce a milestone that none of us imagined when we started this project: the Open Matter Plans Network is now the world's largest open legal workflow database. With over 400 matter plans, more than 5,000 individual tasks, and contributors across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we have built something that has never existed before in the legal industry.

The Numbers Behind the Milestone

Let us put this in perspective. When we launched the registry, we had a handful of Australian family law plans and a vision. Today, we have:

• Over 400 practitioner-grade matter plans across five countries
• More than 5,000 individual tasks with embedded legal commentary
• Coverage spanning family law, criminal law, civil litigation, property, employment, commercial, and more
• Dynamic timeline calculations tied to jurisdiction-specific court rules
• Practitioner traps that have already prevented countless missed deadlines

Thank You to Our Contributors

This milestone belongs to our community. Every plan in this database was built, reviewed, and refined by practising legal professionals who volunteered their expertise to help the entire profession. Our top contributors have collectively authored hundreds of plans, each one peer-reviewed and aligned to the SALI taxonomy standard.

We are particularly proud of the speed at which new jurisdictions have come online. The Canadian criminal law expansion alone added 47 plans in a single release, covering everything from summary convictions to dangerous offender proceedings. The New Zealand family law suite brought 23 plans to a jurisdiction that previously had zero open-source legal workflow resources.

How We Got Here So Fast

Three things made this possible. First, our fork-and-review governance model lets practitioners adapt existing plans for new jurisdictions without starting from scratch. A family property plan in New South Wales can be forked, localised to Victoria or Western Australia, and reviewed by local practitioners in days rather than months.

Second, our commitment to the SALI Alliance standard means every plan slots into a universal taxonomy. When a PMS integration partner connects to our API, they get structured data that maps cleanly to their existing matter types - regardless of which jurisdiction the plan covers.

Third, and most importantly, the community showed up. Practitioners from solo firms to major national practices contributed plans, voted on improvements, and held each other to a standard of quality that no single organisation could enforce alone.

Looking Forward

This milestone is a beginning, not an endpoint. Our roadmap for the second half of 2026 includes expansion into Singapore and South Africa, deeper PMS integrations with Actionstep, LEAP, and Clio, and a new suite of tools that let practitioners generate custom plans from our template library with a single click.

We are also investing heavily in our practitioner trap system. Every plan will have embedded risk markers that translate directly into PMS automations - calculated deadline fields, escalating reminder sequences, and workflow gates that physically prevent downstream tasks from proceeding until critical steps are confirmed.

“The best legal workflows are not invented by committees or software vendors. They emerge from the collective experience of practitioners who do this work every day. We just built the platform that lets that happen at scale.”

- OMPN Team

Thank you to every contributor, every voter, every practitioner who has trusted this database with their workflow. We could not have reached this milestone without you - and we are just getting started.