🇦🇺 Australia • Federal • 78 plans
Federal Australian matter plans cover matters under Commonwealth legislation that apply across all states and territories. These include proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia, Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, Fair Work Commission, Administrative Appeals Tribunal, and IP Australia. Plans address family law (Marriage Act 1961, Family Law Act 1975), workplace relations (Fair Work Act 2009), trade marks (Trade Marks Act 1995), patents, corporate insolvency (Corporations Act 2001), and personal bankruptcy (Bankruptcy Act 1966).
Legal practitioners in Federal can access 78 free, structured matter plan templates across 7 practice areas. Each plan maps the full lifecycle of a matter - from initial instructions through investigation, preparation, and finalisation - with estimated time units, role assignments, and jurisdiction-specific statutory deadlines built in. Open directly in-browser or export to CSV for your practice management system.
The library includes 32 master plans and 46 specialist derivative plans covering specific party roles and procedural variants. All plans are maintained by verified legal practitioners, version-controlled, and aligned to the SALI Alliance Legal Matter Standard Specification - making them compatible with legal AI workflows and direct PMS integration via the JSON API.
What Federal legal matter plans are available?
The Open Matter Plans Network has 78 free Federal legal matter plan templates across 7 practice areas, including Family Law, Bankruptcy & Insolvency, Employment Law. Each plan is a step-by-step workflow checklist aligned to Federal's court procedures and statutory requirements.
Are Federal legal matter plan templates free?
Yes. All Federal matter plans are free to access, browse, and use. You can view plans online, export to CSV for your practice management system, or pull them via the JSON API for direct PMS or legal AI integration.
How are Federal matter plans structured?
Each plan is divided into stages covering the full matter lifecycle - from initial instructions and fact-gathering through preparation, filing, and finalisation. Individual tasks include estimated time units, role assignments, and key date fields. The Federal library includes 32 master plans and 46 specialist derivative plans covering specific procedural variants.
When a practice-management system opens a matter at this level, these are the canonical fields it receives - resolved through the field-set hierarchy (base → area of law → geography → plan). Fields added at this levelare shown below, with inherited tiers beneath; each set's page has the full resolved table. How this works.
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