Student Resources
Explore Our Curated Resource Library for Law Students and Recent Grads
From the pressures of law school, to sitting for the most difficult bar exam in the country, to navigating a highly competitive job market, California law students don’t have it easy. CEB is here to provide support and guidance as you transition to the practice of law in California.
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The CEB Academic Program:
CEB (Continuing Education of the Bar) is California’s trusted legal resource, providing expert-written secondary sources, research tools and legal analysis tailored to the real practice of law.
We want every California law student to graduate research-ready, practice-prepared and confident. Through our Academic Program, students get:
- Free access to our online legal research platform during law school and for the first 18 months post-graduation
- Student-focused blogs, videos and guides aligned with the law school journey
- Career tools to bridge the gap between classroom learning and real-world lawyering
What is the AccessLaw Program:
CEB’s AccessLaw program is the cornerstone of our public service mission to uphold the rule of law by offering high-quality legal information, tools and resources to the California legal community.
Central to our work is cultivating and engaging the next generation of California lawyers. Through the AccessLaw program, CEB works with law schools throughout California to sponsor legal research and writing competitions, fund work-study positions, and provide students, faculty, and staff with free and complete access to CEB products.
How CEB Helps You Transition to Practice
California-Specific Expertise: Unlike broad national providers, CEB is laser-focused on California law. Our content is tailored to the state’s unique legal environment, so you get the most relevant and actionable guidance.
Curated by California’s Legal Experts: More than 1,400 sitting judges and practicing attorneys contribute to our content, ensuring that the insights you rely on come from the best minds in the field.
Beyond Research—Practical Guidance & Workflow Tools: We don’t just help you find the law; we help you apply it with confidence through step-by-step guidance, templates, checklists and forms.
Always Up-to-Date: Our content is continuously refreshed to reflect the latest legislative changes and judicial rulings, so you’re never working with outdated information.
Designed for the Way You Work: Whether you're in a small firm, a large law firm, an in-house legal team, or a government agency, CEB provides specialized resources to meet your needs.
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Why Choose CEB for Law School Students and Recent Grads
Current Law Students 
Why CEB for Law School Students
Bridging the Gap Between Legal Education & Practice
Practice-Ready Legal Research Tools: Learn from the same authoritative resources used by top law firms and courts throughout California.
Expert Guidance from Sitting Judges & Practicing Attorneys: Gain insights directly from the professionals shaping California law.
Career-Boosting Knowledge & Skills: Develop hands-on legal research experience that sets you apart in internships, clerkships, and job applications.
Access to Free Legal Research with AccessLaw: Law students at participating California schools can access CEB’s full suite of legal research tools for free.
Why CEB for Law School Students
Bridging the Gap Between Legal Education & Practice
Practice-Ready Legal Research Tools: Learn from the same authoritative resources used by top law firms and courts throughout California.
Expert Guidance from Sitting Judges & Practicing Attorneys: Gain insights directly from the professionals shaping California law.
Career-Boosting Knowledge & Skills: Develop hands-on legal research experience that sets you apart in internships, clerkships, and job applications.
Access to Free Legal Research with AccessLaw: Law students at participating California schools can access CEB’s full suite of legal research tools for free.
Recent Graduates
Why CEB for Recent Graduates
Supporting Your Transition from Law School to Legal Practice
Access That Extends Beyond Graduation: Stay connected to CEB’s trusted legal research platform for 18 months after you graduate—at no cost to you.
Practice-Ready Tools and Resources: The tools you need to tackle early cases and assignments confidently. Keep current with DailyNews, keep learning with CLE & MCLE courses, and keep ahead of the competition with OnLAW Pro plus Practitioner’s in-depth secondary sources and workflows.
Expert Guidance for New Attorneys: Get practical tips, curated legal updates, and career development content tailored specifically to early-career attorneys—delivered by judges, attorneys, and California law experts.
Real-World Support When You Need It: Whether you’re drafting your first motion, prepping for court, or navigating firm culture, CEB helps bridge the gap with California-specific, role-relevant tools that meet you where you are.
Why CEB for Recent Graduates
Supporting Your Transition from Law School to Legal Practice
Access That Extends Beyond Graduation: Stay connected to CEB’s trusted legal research platform for 18 months after you graduate—at no cost to you.
Practice-Ready Tools and Resources: The tools you need to tackle early cases and assignments confidently. Keep current with DailyNews, keep learning with CLE & MCLE courses, and keep ahead of the competition with OnLAW Pro plus Practitioner’s in-depth secondary sources and workflows.
Expert Guidance for New Attorneys: Get practical tips, curated legal updates, and career development content tailored specifically to early-career attorneys—delivered by judges, attorneys, and California law experts.
Real-World Support When You Need It: Whether you’re drafting your first motion, prepping for court, or navigating firm culture, CEB helps bridge the gap with California-specific, role-relevant tools that meet you where you are.
Law Student resources
Core Curriculum Tools
Surviving the Socratic Method and Cold Calls
Legal Tech 101: Tools Every Law Student Should Learn
AI Essentials
Legal Writing Beyond the Classroom: What Law Firms Expect
Infographic: IRAC in Law School Exams
Professional Networking
CEB Resources
AccessLaw —Explore CEB’s academic program
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Secondary Sources — Titles included with your CEB AccessLaw Program membership.
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CEB Academic Essential Skills — Transitioning from law school to practice is a steep learning curve. This collection is designed to ease that transition by breaking down the essential skills you’ll need to hit the ground running, created by California attorneys who have been in your shoes. This collection covers basic lawyering skills, navigating legal technology, beginning your legal career and legal ethics for new attorneys.
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OnLAW® Pro — Driven by content and 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. See what is included for AccessLaw members.
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Primary Law — Find the right authority sooner.
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CEB Practitioner™ Overview — Law school teaches you how to research the law, Practitioner empowers you to turn research into results.
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CEB Practitioner™ Practice Areas — Explore practice areas and subcategories.
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Career Preparations
How to Choose the Right Legal Career Path — Choosing your legal career path can feel like standing at a crossroads with dozens of signs pointing in different directions, and each one written in legal jargon you’re still trying to decode. Unlike other professions where you might gradually find your niche, law school often forces you to make career decisions before you fully understand what different practice areas actually involve day-to-day.
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Strategic Extracurriculars — Your Roadmap to Landing the Dream Legal Position. Law school feels like a marathon where everyone’s running toward the same finish line – that coveted attorney position. While your GPA matters, savvy law students know that extracurricular activities can be the differentiator that makes recruiters take notice. The key isn’t just participating in everything; it’s about making strategic choices that align with your career goals and showcase your unique strengths
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Juggling Acts: Mastering Multiple Deadlines in Law School and Beyond — Second-year law students know the feeling all too well: everything seems due at once. That might sound dramatic, but anyone who’s tried to balance appellate briefs, job applications, and law review work all in the same week knows it’s pretty accurate. Here’s the thing though — those multiple deadlines aren’t going anywhere after graduation. They actually get more complicated in practice.
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Internship Guidance
How to Land Your First Legal Internship (Even Without Top Grades) — The key lies in identifying employers and sectors where your specific strengths will be recognized and valued, rather than competing in settings where the evaluation criteria work against you.
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Building a Competitive Edge in a Crowded Legal Market — How to stand out when everyone has the same GPA and credentials.
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How to Make Your Summer Internship Count — Tips on impressing employers and converting internships into job offers.
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Recent Graduate Resources
Professional Growth
Job Hunting in the Legal Industry: Where to Start — Finding the right role, networking effectively and leveraging job boards.
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Do’s and Don’ts of Law School Interviews — Whether you’re navigating OCI or looking to land your dream job, the following DON’Ts can help you avoid common pitfalls in preparation for and during your interview.
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Why Mentorship Matters and How to Find a Good Mentor — The transition from law school to legal practice feels like jumping from the kiddie pool into the deep end of the ocean. You’ve mastered case briefs and survived the Socratic method, but now you’re facing billable hour requirements, client demands, and office politics that no Constitutional Law class could have prepared you for.
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How to Market Yourself as a New Lawyer — Landing your first legal job can feel like trying to argue a case without any evidence, daunting and overwhelming. The good news? You have more to offer than you think, and with the right marketing strategy, you can position yourself as a compelling candidate who firms want to hire.
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Financial Planning for New Lawyers— Before you start dreaming about that first paycheck, let’s talk about something they probably didn’t cover in Constitutional Law, how to manage your finances as a new lawyer. Between student loan debt that might rival a mortgage and salary expectations that vary wildly across practice areas, financial planning becomes just as important as passing the bar exam.
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From Law School to the Courtroom — You’ve survived three years of case briefs, legal writing assignments, and the bar exam looms ahead. But here’s something your professors probably didn’t mention between discussions of precedent and procedure: the transition from law school to actual legal practice is like learning to swim by jumping into the deep end.
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New Attorneys
Career Preparations
How to Build a Reputation in Your Legal Niche — Establishing expertise and credibility early in your career.
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Work-Life Balance as a New Attorney: It Is Possible — If you’re a graduating law student, you’ve probably heard the horror stories. The 80-hour weeks, the canceled vacations, the lawyers who haven’t seen their families in months. The legal profession has a reputation for destroying work-life balance, and frankly, some of that reputation is earned. But here’s what the doom-and-gloom narratives miss: thousands of lawyers successfully maintain fulfilling careers while also having rich personal lives. It’s not only possible, it’s becoming more common and more expected.
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The Ethics Minefield: Avoiding Malpractice and Ethical Pitfalls as a Young Lawyer — Staying compliant with professional responsibility rules.
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Early Career Insights
Do’s and Don’ts of Interviewing — Whether you’re navigating OCI or looking to land your dream job, the following DON’Ts can help you avoid common pitfalls in preparation for and during your interview.
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Navigating Law Firm Culture: Unspoken Rules Every New Associate Should Know — Understanding firm hierarchy, billable hours, and office politics.
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The Art of Managing Clients (Even the Difficult Ones) — Here’s what your professors didn’t tell you, being a great lawyer isn’t just about knowing the law. It’s about managing relationships with people who are often stressed, confused, and dealing with some of the worst moments of their lives. Your ability to navigate these relationships will determine not just your success, but your sanity.
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Surviving the First Year at a Law Firm: Productivity and Performance Hacks — How to meet expectations and avoid burnout.
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Courtroom Etiquette and How to Make a Strong Impression — The do’s and don’ts of in-person and virtual court appearances.
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Infographic: Your First Courtroom Experience — How you prepare for court will depend on your case, but here are some general guidelines to help you navigate your first courtroom experience.
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Navigating the Courtroom: A First-Year Law Student’s Guide to Understanding How Courts Actually Work — Law school does a great job teaching legal theory, but the day-to-day reality of courtroom practice? That’s a whole different beast. Your casebooks might have you convinced that legal arguments flow seamlessly from doctrine to victory, but real courtrooms are messier, more strategic, and way more dependent on things they don’t teach in Civil Procedure. Getting a handle on these practical realities now will save you from some awkward learning moments later.
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Cracking the Code: Finding California-Specific Legal Knowledge for New Practitioners — Law school teaches you to think like a lawyer, but it doesn’t teach you how to actually practice law in California. There’s a huge gap between understanding constitutional principles and knowing how to properly serve a motion in LA County Superior Court. If you’re a third-year student planning to practice in California, you need to bridge this gap quickly. Knowing where to find practical, state-specific guidance can make the difference between looking like you know what you’re doing and looking completely lost on day one.
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See the CEB Difference for Yourself
The right legal research solution isn’t just about finding the law — it’s about finding answers you can trust, from a partner that understands your unique challenges. CEB delivers the most authoritative, practical, and California-specific legal insights available, empowering you to practice with confidence.
