It doesn't appear to be duplicating anything already in progress, and people mostly agree that a shared repository of models, schemas, components, and examples would be highly desirable. Its scope naturally extends to technology in the broadest sense of all the tools we and our clients bring to the distinctively legal work before us. Not being a reductionist or technocrat, I have no doubt that much of what good lawyers do cannot be replicated by computer systems. But my long experience in the field has also continually confirmed that most of what good lawyers do can be accomplished much more effectively through appropriate automation. Better tools and better communication media make for better lawyers.
Lawyers doing good work at reasonable prices is good for just about everyone.
They settle on some standard ways to think about and implement legal applications. They contribute practice software examples and components to a common repository, while also following OPT principles in their own private or commercial applications. The result is an upsurge in legal technology innovation, productivity, quality, reusability, and interoperability. We are at one of those special points in history where public good and private interest are closely aligned in a sector of human activity. Law is ripe for fundamental improvement through collaborative commerce in practice systems.