> California has differences in its laws that make it naturally harder than the "collective norm."
To expand on this, as a non-lawyer who pays lawyers, I absolutely refuse to sign anything under California law which doesn't have to be. The courts take three to 4 times longer than Delaware's [1], there are a bunch of BS rules you have to spend ten pages having both parties mutually agree to exculpate from their proceedings and the lawyers, given all this and the difficulty of the exam, are a time and a half as expensive as New York's.
[1] "For fiscal year 2014, the average elapsed from filing to disposition [for the Delaware Supreme Court] was only 154.2 days, and the average elapsed time from submission to disposition was only 27.3 days" [a]. Meanwhile, in California, the median time to process an appeal, statewide, is 518 days, ranging from 423 in Ventura to 693 in Sacramento [b].
To expand on this, as a non-lawyer who pays lawyers, I absolutely refuse to sign anything under California law which doesn't have to be. The courts take three to 4 times longer than Delaware's [1], there are a bunch of BS rules you have to spend ten pages having both parties mutually agree to exculpate from their proceedings and the lawyers, given all this and the difficulty of the exam, are a time and a half as expensive as New York's.
[1] "For fiscal year 2014, the average elapsed from filing to disposition [for the Delaware Supreme Court] was only 154.2 days, and the average elapsed time from submission to disposition was only 27.3 days" [a]. Meanwhile, in California, the median time to process an appeal, statewide, is 518 days, ranging from 423 in Ventura to 693 in Sacramento [b].
[a] http://courts.delaware.gov/AOC/docs/ACTL-DSBA-Full-Report.pd... pages 2 and 3
[b] http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/2016-Court-Statistics-Rep... page 28