The only California-specific legal know-how tool. CEB’s workflow solution allows you to go beyond practice guides and case law research to focus on the quick and professional completion of specific legal tasks while understanding the broader context of your legal matter. Practitioner’s Workflows, How-To Guides, Strategy Notes, Charts, Checklists, and Sample Documents are organized in an intuitive, task-based interface and are searchable by practice area, resource type, and jurisdiction, so you can get the procedural guidance and substantive analysis you need at a glance.  

California’s groundbreaking Workplace Violence Prevention Law is now in effect, and noncompliance can lead to severe penalties. Download Compliance Checklist: What to Know About California’s New Workplace Violence Prevention Law

Driven by content, powered by technology, CEB is the most comprehensive legal resource for California law, providing a perfect mix of hyper-local content, practical guidance and education.

Driven by content, powered by technology, CEB is the most comprehensive legal resource for California law, providing a perfect mix of hyper-local content, practical guidance and education.

Driven by content, powered by technology, CEB is the most comprehensive legal resource for California law, providing a perfect mix of hyper-local content, practical guidance and education.

“It is a “go to” source for answers to specific legal questions where a generalized Westlaw search is not sufficiently specific.” — Nancy Tetreault, Partner

Explore our white paper to discover seven practical strategies for leveraging legal research to enhance your decision-making, anchor your strategies in solid data, and reduce unnecessary costs.

Compare the most popular features of OnLAW with OnLAW Pro and see how to perform the same tasks in both the current and upgraded versions of the product.

Are you tired of juggling multiple legal research tools that drain your budget without meeting your firm’s specific needs? Our latest white paper, “Alternative Legal Research Tools for the Budget-Conscious Law Firm: How to Find the Right Fit,“ is here to help.

The technology is new, but the ethical concerns it raises are not. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform the practice of law with its ability to quickly analyze vast sets of data and draft detailed legal documents and briefs.

Discover how CEB’s comprehensive legal research tools can be a game-changer for solo and small firm practitioners in our latest case study, featuring the inspiring journey of California attorney Jake Pillard.

Are you ready to streamline your legal research process and enhance your efficiency? Unlock the effective legal research process with our latest white paper, The Ideal Legal Research Workflow for California Law: A 9-Step Guide.

Are you going to be working with a new associate, or possibly a summer associate? Are you ready to make a meaningful impact on the next generation of legal professionals? Discover how you can become an effective mentor with CEB’s insightful white paper, Mentoring New Associates: Nine Steps on How to Guide and Inspire Your Mentees.

Practitioner’s Workflows, How-To Guides, Strategy Notes, Charts, Checklists, and annotated Sample Documents empower you to complete even unfamiliar tasks with skill and confidence, while helping you understand the broader context of your legal matter so you can plan for what comes next.

We’ve taken our decades of experience and have developed a 7-step guide, designed to help you navigate the complexities of this process. Our new white paper, How to Launch a New Practice Group at Your Law Firm: A 7-Step Guide from Preparation to Liftoff, offers a clear and practical roadmap for success

Discover the untapped potential of legal research in our latest white paper, “How to Leverage Legal Research for Marketing and Business Development.” This insightful guide reveals how you can leverage the research tools you already have to drive your firm’s marketing and business development efforts.

As a self-supporting organization part of the University of California, we have 75+ years of service to the legal community. Read about our journey from post-WWII beginnings to today’s premier authority on legal research, practical guidance, and education.

When Evan Walker moved to California, started his solo practice, and switched to the plaintiff’s side, he chose CEB to be part of his new endeavor—and a big part of his ongoing success.

CEB’s guidebook, The One-Page Strategic Plan: Business Planning Made Simple, teaches you strategic planning made simple, fast, and effective.

The service we were receiving and have received for years has been consistent; it’s been thoughtful and collaborative and kind. That’s meaningful to us.

The traditional approach to marketing and networking is to cast a wide net to find people and then convert them into clients. You only keep a select number of leads to follow up with. In this guidebook, Strategies for Growing Your Law Firm Business Online.

A law firm is no different from any other business. It sells legal services to consumers. When you start your solo practice, you’re opening a small business, and you need to be strategic about planning long before you open.

The ideal lawyer has a combination of leadership, business management, and technical skills—just like a project manager. In Project Management Tools for Success, professional project manager Marie Spark details key project management tools for lawyers.

After you’ve spoken with your client and reviewed the case or matter file, where should you start your legal research? When you’re short on time and juggling multiple deadlines, you need to optimize your workflow.

If you’re not taking advantage of LinkedIn, you’re missing out! In CEB’s free guidebook, LinkedIn for Attorneys: Creating Your Personal Brand and Writing Highly Visible Posts, trade secret attorney and experienced speaker Anabella Bonfa details how.

As a lawyer, you can craft a compelling argument and to appeal to your listener’s intellect. But for people to hear what you say, you need to craft HOW you say it. Learn how to leverage those aspects of public speaking essential to engaging and persuading an audience.

California Criminal Law Procedure and Practice (or the “crime law bible”) has been the first place to go for Alaleh Kamran since she became a criminal defense attorney in 1992.

Are you worried about how you will find clients and how to set yourself up for success when it comes to collecting fees? In Finding Clients and Getting Paid, Jen Grondahl Lee walks you through how to find clients who are looking for your services and how to convince them to pay you for advice.

If you’re doing what every other lawyer is doing on social media, you’re doing it wrong. Successfully connecting online demands that you be yourself. Learn more in How to Communicate Persuasively—in Court and on Social Media, by Mitch Jackson of Jackson & Wilson.

For lawyers and other legal professionals, confidence is critical. In Building Professional Confidence Maria Hall, Amanda M. Rokita, and Pinky Ghuman give invaluable guidance on building confidence, competence, and stretching beyond your comfort zone. 

CEB’s OnLAW is a key part of long-time attorney and law professor James Creighton’s tool kit–in his groundbreaking trusts and estates practice as well as in his legal teaching.

Have you been dreaming about stepping out on your own? Set yourself up for success with the support you need. In this CEB guidebook, Building a Sustainable Community-Based Solo Law Practice, Maria Hall and Micheli Quadros lay out some of the things to consider before starting your own law firm.

In Strategies for Building a Successful Small Firm Litigation Practice, Lewis Hudnell covers strategies for starting your own practice, getting your first case, handling large and complex matters, growing your practice, and going toe-to-toe with big firms.

What do you want your business to become? What does success look like? In defining your firm brand, you define its future. In Building a Brand: Measuring, Metrics, and Marketing, Jo-Anna Nieves walks you through how to define your law firm’s purpose and plan for its future.

Video mediation has shot to prominence recently as the best way to get to settlement—during a pandemic, and possibly afterwards as well. Your clients might feel nervous about using video mediation, and you might too. Quelling Fear of Video Mediation, by Teddy Snyder, can set you up to use the medium wisely and successfully.