Onboarding Resources

Find what you need faster by searching across all our legal research content, then using filters to optimize your search. Anytime you start searching, even before you submit your search, you are offered a list of related search terms and possible content matches. If none of those suggestions are what you’re looking for, click the search icon or hit enter to continue searching. Results are dynamically ranked under the all tab to provide the top three results for each content type with the most relevant content at the top. This page gives a good overview of what kind of information each content type provides. The type of information you need will dictate how you continue your search. Practitioner resources are designed to help you work faster without sacrificing quality. So if it’s a task you need done, will likely be your best starting point. Our secondary sources are a wealth of knowledge that offer a deeper understanding of legal topics while still being grounded in practical and actionable guidance. Cases, statutes, and rules of court are, as expected, your standard primary law results. And news results can offer insight into current events and recent cases related to your research. To view the full list of results for a specific content type, you can click the See All Results buttons throughout the page, or you can use the tabs just under the search bar to navigate through the full list of results. Once you’re looking at the results for a specific content type, you’ll see the option to search within results just below the content tabs. This is where you can include additional key terms to narrow your results. For a few of the content types, including practitioner, there is an easy option to sort results by date, which will bring the most recently updated results to the top of the list. For content type specific filters, click the blue filter search to the right of the content tabs. The filters that appear will be different depending on which content tab you are on. For practitioner results, you can filter by practice area, including sub area, task type, organized between litigation type tasks and transactional type tasks, and courts, including the four federal district courts and county superior courts for the 20 most populous counties in California. For a detailed walkthrough of the practitioner resource types, find our practitioner overview video. Under secondary sources, the checkbox in the upper right corner allows you to quickly narrow to forms only. The forms published in our secondary sources are something of a predecessor to our practitioner content. They are attorney drafted, downloadable Word documents that offer a strong starting point when drafting briefs and letters. The secondary source filters include practice area, titles, which is great if you know which book or books may have the information you need, and resource type. And of course, you can use keywords to search within the results. CEB news articles cover breaking legal news, legal analysis, practice management content, and long form reporting. By default, these results are sorted by relevance. To put the most recent articles at the top, sort by date. In addition to searching within results, you can also filter the results by practice area. If case law is what you need and you plan to use it in a court briefing, narrowing your results to published only is an easy start. And if you’re wanting the most recent cases, sorting by date is a good next step. In addition to using keywords to search within results, narrowing by cause of action can be helpful to give you an idea of what claims people have sought under similar circumstances. This can inform your further research and can help you plan what evidence you need for your case. To find a more parallel case to your own, you might narrow by court, procedural posture, disposition, or appellant’s trial court role. Note the TruSight flags next to each case. These offer insight at a glance on whether the case may be usable. For an in-depth look at our case citator, find our TruSight video. When looking at the statute’s results, you can use a keyword search or filter by code. When viewing the Rules of Court search results, your only option to filter is by searching within the results. Be aware that although each content tab allows you to search within results may contain the same filters as other content types, like practice area, switching between content tabs resets and clears all filters, including additional key terms you’ve included. The filters remain cleared even when returning to content tabs on which you previously used filters. Give our search filters a try today and start finding answers faster.