CEB is better for primary law than Google or ChatGPT because it is built to support reliable legal research and professional reliance, not general information retrieval.
Google surfaces copies of cases and statutes from many sources, but it does not tell you whether a case is still good law, how it has been treated by later courts, or whether it is truly relevant to California family law. Attorneys must independently verify currency, subsequent history, and relevance, which adds time and increases risk.
Tools like ChatGPT can summarize or explain legal concepts, but they are not primary law systems. They do not provide citator-level validation, cannot reliably identify controlling authority, and cannot guarantee that a cited case is current, properly interpreted, or still authoritative. They are not designed for citation, reliance, or professional accountability.
Continuing Education of the Bar delivers primary law in a way that is specifically engineered for legal practice. CEB provides curated California cases, statutes, and rules with integrated citator tools that show subsequent treatment and help attorneys assess whether a case remains valid authority. In addition, cases are organized by subject through Attorney’s BriefCase analysis, allowing attorneys to see how decisions fit into issue-specific lines of authority rather than reviewing opinions in isolation. This combination of citator confidence, subject-based organization, and California-only curation allows attorneys to move beyond finding a case to understanding whether they can safely rely on it.