Web Links — California

State of California Homepage

Links to: history and culture, travel and vacations, doing business, living and learning, working,
government, natural resources, environmental protection, and more.

Attorney General

This site offers links to: public inquiry, publications and reports,
legal opinions
, career opportunities, and more.

CAL Law

Cal Law is the complete daily briefing for California lawyers and their clients; offering news, analysis, classified ads, local court rules, state and federal appellate opinions, and information on all cases before the state Supreme Court. Cal Law is a publication of The Recorder, the daily legal newspaper of California (based in San Francisco).

California Anti-SLAPP Project

Comprehensive information and texts of California and federal cases relating to First Amendment right of petition and "strategic lawsuits against public participation" (SLAPPs).

California Bills

Browse a searchable index of all California bills passed through both houses of the Legislature; access statutes by subject and keyword search.

California Courts
View the structure of the court system in California with 100 Municipal Courts, 58 Superior Courts, 18 Courts of Appeal and 1 Supreme Court.

California Judicial Council Forms (FREE)

Complete set of California Judicial Council Forms for MS Windows. Forms are offered FREE of charge for download from Cerenade's Web Site. Also available is JCF-Lite, Esq., which allows for data entry into fields and saving/retrieval of information.

California Law Revision Commission

The Commission was created as the permanent successor to the Code Commission and given responsibility for the continuing substantive review of California statutory and decisional law. The Commission studies the law in order to discover defects and anachronisms and recommends legislation to make needed reforms.

California State Constitution

The California State Constitution is grouped into subject matter areas known as Articles. Each Article is organized by a heading and section numbers. The Table of Contents includes each Article heading and corresponding section numbers. Searchable by keyword.

California State Senate

This site offers links to: what's new, Senate leadership, Senator homepages, legislation, Senate committees, legislative schedules, and more.

California Secretary of State

This site offers searching for election-related materials, business filing information or records from the State Archives.

California's 29 Codes

California Law consists of 29 codes, covering various subject areas, the State
Constitution and Statutes. Information presented reflects laws currently in effect. Searchable by keyword.

Continuing Education of the Bar California

Descriptions of CEB's Legal publications and seminar programs.

Handbook of California Civil Procedure
A digital treatise on prosecuting and defending lawsuits in the California civil courts available from Stratton Press. 

Judicial Council Legal Forms

Forms are provided as Adobe Acrobat documents (.pdf). These documents are for you to print out and fill in manually or with a typewriter.

Los Angeles County Bar Association

The Los Angeles County Bar Association is extensively engaged in advancing the administration of  justice, promoting many public service projects and meeting the professional needs of lawyers.

Los Angeles Law Online

This is a free legal resource and attorney directory for LA with legal news, attorney columns, law forum, and legal employment.

Office of State Public Defender

Links offered include: federal/state/local government sites, law organizations/schools/commercial sites, Lexis Counsel connect, and more. Municipal Courts of:

State Bar of California

The information in the State Bar's Web pages is organized based on the nature of inquiries received by the Bar from its members, consumers, members of the public and the media. Links offered include:

California Young Lawyer's Association
, overview, employment opportunities, news releases, publications, and more.

Witkin Legal Institute's California Legal Developments

This site provides the visitor with some highlights of recent developments in California law. It also includes: information about the four treatises that comprise the Witkin Library; information about the Witkin Legal Institute; a listing of current Institute activities; legal research tips and techniques; and links to other useful legal and government resources available on the World Wide Web.