OnLAW ® Pro plus Practitioner™

Turn Research into Results with the Only California-Specific Legal Know-How Solution

Integrated with OnLAW Pro, Practitioner provides expert insights to help you apply the law with confidence.

Integrated with OnLAW Pro, Practitioner provides expert insights to help you apply the law with confidence.

Discover the Power of Practitioner: Legal Research plus Practical Guidance

Practitioner is essential to OnLAW Pro, designed to give you practical tools, guidance, and expert insights to help you bridge the gap between legal research and real-world application.

Begin your research with expert-authored treatises you can't find elsewhere to give you a clear understanding of the issues at hand. Then find the relevant primary law all in the same platform. Save time and ensure your work is grounded in expert commentary, as well as the most current legal precedents.

Practical Legal Guidance at Your Fingertips

Why You Want It:

Maximize Efficiency with California-Focused Legal Know-How

Comprehensive Legal Research with Practical Guidance

Begin your legal research with in-depth, expert-authored treatises that provide a clear understanding of the issues at hand. These treatises, authored by California’s top judges and attorneys, offer practical insights and deep analysis you can’t find anywhere else. Seamlessly transition to the relevant primary law all within the same platform.

Enhanced Efficiency and Improved Outcomes

Handle more cases and more complex issues without the need for extensive training. Practical tools such as forms, checklists, strategy guides and templates simplify the research process, ensuring that even the most nuanced details are addressed. You can focus more on high-value tasks while reducing the risk of errors, improving client outcomes and increasing productivity.

Access to Exclusive, Expert-Authored Content

Gain access to practical guidance, workflows, and insights authored by California’s top judges and attorneys. These expert contributors provide deep, nuanced perspectives and insider knowledge that can’t be found in any other resource. This gives your firm a competitive edge, ensuring that you are applying the law with the most accurate and up-to-date information.

Improved Client Outcomes

Achieve better outcomes by leveraging research accuracy and practical tools. The depth of information available, combined with step-by-step guidance, ensures that every legal argument is built on solid, thoroughly researched ground. This improves client satisfaction and positions you as an expert in handling California-specific legal issues.

Speed Up Onboarding and Training for Associates

Onboard new associates easily and quickly. With step-by-step guidance, sample documents and how-to workflows, junior attorneys can handle complex legal matters faster and with more confidence. This allows firms to scale and handle more cases without sacrificing quality or accuracy while also reducing the learning curve for new hires.

Expand into New Practice Areas with Confidence

Extend your expertise in unfamiliar practice areas. With practical guidance tools that include workflows, forms, and checklists, you can confidently handle cases in any area. This makes it easier for small and mid-size firms to expand their capabilities, take on more complex matters, and grow their practice without hiring additional staff or investing in extensive training.

Features That Make a Difference

Features that Make a Difference

Primary Law with TrueCite®

Leverage our best-in-class legal search to find the most relevant content, fast. Narrow your results with advanced filters, including court, cause of action, procedural posture, and disposition. Coverage includes California Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S. Supreme Court case law, as well as the California Codes and California Constitution. Plus, TrueCite’s color-coded treatment flags let you know at a glance whether a case is still good law.

California-Focused Practice Guides

Rely on CEB’s expert community of contributing judges and lawyers to frame and organize the legal issues for you before you dive into case law research or start drafting. The most trusted and comprehensive California-specific practice guides available, in curated practice area libraries that meet the needs of California lawyers.

Workflows

Work smarter by accessing all Practitioner’s resources via Workflows that provide a logical and dynamic overview of major categories of work and legal tasks required by specific types of California state and federal cases. Find the specific resource you need, when you need it, while understanding how that resource fits into the broader context of your case. 

How-to Guides

Spend less time navigating the local rules of court and multiple pages on each court’s website. Let the judges in the California counties and district courts you practice in guide you through the proper procedure. Each how-to Guide provides clear, concise step-by-step guidance, including Judge’s Perspective notes, Practice Notes and more. 

Strategy Notes

The best lawyers always want to know how other experienced practitioners analyze the issues. Strategy Notes give you an outline of the key strategic and tactical considerations you should take into account when analyzing a new development in your practice area, approaching settlement negotiations or advising your client.  

Charts and Checklists

Not everything requires in-depth legal research. Sometimes all you need is a quick overview of the key tasks or issues, or a reminder to not to forget an important step. Includes Cause of Action Checklists that outline the key elements, statutes of limitations, relevant jury instructions, remedies and damages for a particular claim.

Sample Documents

High-quality templates, forms and standard clauses, with detailed Guidance Comment annotations explaining the document’s requirements, as well as how, when or why to adapt the sample language or use an alternate clause. Downloadable in Word, either with or without Guidance Comments.  

Each Practice Area is Carefully Curated

Whether your focus is on business law, real property, corporate law, employment law, litigation, family law or emerging areas like privacy and cybersecurity, CEB’s library spans a wide range of relevant practice areas. This breadth ensures that you can find the precise, actionable guidance you need for any legal matter.

Litigate business disputes, including breach of contract, partnership disputes, business torts and insurance coverage issues. Use practical workflows and how-to guides to master the procedural requirements for different counties.
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Get workflows for wage and hour, discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims. Rely on strategic insights and annotated sample documents by expert practitioners on PAGA, leave laws, wrongful termination, civil procedure and other issues.
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Handle divorce, child custody and support, marital settlement agreements, visitation and more with CEB’s comprehensive California-focused coverage of family law, including the “green bible.” Confidently hand off work to paralegals and new associates with workflows and practical guidance.
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Navigate California state and federal courts with confidence. Get county- and district court-specific guidance from judges, workflows that cover drafting and responding to complaints, discovery, motion practice, trial preparation and more.
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Litigate disputes arising out of real property purchase and sale contracts, disputes with brokers and title disputes. Master litigation practice and procedure in the counties where you have a case, using workflows and other guidance tools.
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Navigate the complex interplay of the Probate Code, Civil Code, Code of Civil Procedure and Evidence Code when litigating will and trust disputes or elder law litigation.
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What Clients Are Saying

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