280 field sets - 1 base, 11 practice area, 268 plan

The Matter Field Standard.

Every legal matter is made of the same raw material - a client, a property, a settlement date, a court reference. The Matter Field Standard is the open, practice-management-neutral dictionary of those matter.* field tokens. It is versioned and hierarchical: a universal base set of fields every matter shares, extended by practice-area sets (conveyancing, family, litigation), extended again by plan-scoped sets that add the few tokens a specific workflow needs. Any PMS pre-fills against one resolved token list - no vendor lock-in, no bespoke mapping per plan.

Integration docs

“OMN owns the vocabulary; the PMS owns the adapter.”

- OMN Canonical Field Contract

We publish the canonical token list and keep it current; your practice management system decides how to map its own storage onto those tokens. One shared vocabulary, many adapters.

The Hierarchy

Base

every matter

Universal Matter Core

matter-core

The universal field set every matter carries, regardless of area of law: matter identity, client, our firm, operator, the other side, court/tribunal basics, key dates and headline financials. Practice-area sets (conveyancing, family, …) EXTEND this base.

Basev135 fields

Practice areas

extend the base

Construction Field Set (AU)

construction-au

Practice areaAUv10 fields

extends matter-core

Conveyancing Forms Field Set

conveyancing-forms-au

Canonical matter.* tokens used to pre-fill Australian conveyancing forms (council searches, transfers, lodgement). Reconciled from the OMN template catalog and the EPMS matter payload.

Practice areaAUv3118 fields4 plans

extends matter-core

Corporate & Insolvency Field Set (AU)

corporate-insolvency-au

Practice areaAUv10 fields

extends matter-core

Criminal Law Field Set (AU)

criminal-law-au

Practice areaAUv12 fields

extends matter-core

Employment Field Set (AU)

employment-au

Practice areaAUv13 fields

extends matter-core

Family Law Field Set (AU)

family-law-au

Practice areaAUv117 fields5 plans

extends matter-core

General Matter Field Set (AU)

general-au

Practice areaAUv12 fields

extends matter-core

Immigration Field Set (AU)

immigration-au

Practice areaAUv10 fields

extends matter-core

Intellectual Property Field Set (AU)

ip-au

Practice areaAUv111 fields

extends matter-core

Personal Injury Field Set (AU)

personal-injury-au

Practice areaAUv11 field

extends matter-core

Wills & Estates Field Set (AU)

wills-estates-au

Practice areaAUv116 fields

extends matter-core

Plan-scoped sets

268 sets extend a practice area

Individual matter plans add their own small set of tokens on top of a practice area. There are far too many to list - here is how they break down by practice area. Each resolves back through its parent to the base, so a PMS still sees one flat token list.

conveyancing90 plan sets

family75 plan sets

estates34 plan sets

general25 plan sets

employment12 plan sets

criminal10 plan sets

personal-injury9 plan sets

ip6 plan sets

construction4 plan sets

immigration2 plan sets

corporate1 plan set

About the Field Standard

The Matter Field Standard is the data companion to our matter plans and document catalogue. A matter plan tells you how to run a matter; a document template produces its paperwork; the field standard is the shared vocabulary that binds both to your practice management system.

Sets are resolved root-first: a child set overrides its parent by token, and every field carries a definedIn provenance stamp naming the set that declared it. Slugs are immutable once published, so PMS clients can bind to them permanently. Integrate the vocabulary through the API.