Is it possible to successfully work through a business partnership dispute in San Diego or anywhere in California?  Are you in the midst of serious challenge with another member of your LLC or shareholder in your corporate entity?  A business partnership dispute places your company at risk and could threaten all of the time, money and hard work you’ve invested.

Proven and Efficient Strategies for a Business Partnership Dispute

Are you are looking for experienced and proven partnership dispute resolution attorneys who will protect your position and resolve issues quickly and cost-effectively?

The Watkins Firm has more than four decades of experience and proven strategies to successfully work through a business partnership dispute in San Diego or anywhere throughout the State of California.  Our unique approach to resolving business related disputes accomplishes our client’s objectives in a timely and cost-efficient manner.  Partnership disputes often involve disagreements about perceptions or the roles of the parties.  In some cases, there is simply a disagreement about important business decisions or the direction of the company.

In many partnership disputes, genuine issues are actually the result of making money, the success of the company.  After more than 40 years of experience as a business attorney, I can tell you, people change when a business starts to make real money.

In other cases, a business partner may have had the skill set to manage their responsibilities when the company was originally started, but success and growth have exceeded the partner’s current skill set.  It may be necessary to bring in new people or to readjust the balance of the partnership to reflect the realities of the situation at hand.

It may be necessary for our partnership dispute resolution lawyers help to negotiate the exit of one of the players.  In some cases it is best to simply work through a transition while protecting the interests of the parties and ensuring a smooth process throughout.  This is especially true when there are concerns about potential theft by a partner or the commingling of business and personal assets.  These behaviors can actually be a threat to the protections of the corporate veil exposing you and other partners personal assets in the process.

Pro-Tip: “If you’ve got a partnership dispute on your hands, talk to a good lawyer right away, who has done this for decades and knows how to protect your interests and your pocketbook. For example, we had a case a long time ago, nine or 10 doctors were working together in our medical practice. And our two or three doctors were worried about something. They came to us and over that weekend, the managing members of the medical corporation took the entire practice, moved. It changed its phone number, location, changed it, mailing address and took all the money and assets and bank accounts. Wow. Didn’t even tell where the other partners, where they were going. They showed up for work on Monday and there was no more work. They had disappeared overnight down the street to a different facility with instructions to keep them out. So knowing something might be going on is the time to come to your lawyer so that we can do things to discover whether there’s really something going on and the options and remedies in the law that can stop that.  

Everybody writes their contracts differently and there’s laws on every type of contract in the state of California, as far as how to interpret them. And sometimes people write contracts that are really poorly crafted from a legal point of view. Some of the clauses may be unenforceable and even some judges may read them differently. And it never matters really unless there’s a lot of money at stake! That’s when everybody goes back, when they get that big contract, where all of a sudden your company’s going to be making triple what it did, then they go back and look at their partnership agreements. So if something like that happens, go see an experienced business lawyer at the Watkins Firm who won’t just say, ‘you need to file a lawsuit,’ who can try to negotiate some kind of resolution and see if you’re getting the benefit of the bargain and try to work it out.

We want to get the facts down and we want the evidence our clients have in chronological order, because that’s the best way to communicate to the other party, to a third party, to anyone is in chronological order. That’s how we think. Then I want to help our clients analyze the damages. Whether you are feeling like they owe you something, they’re not complying with the agreement or vice versa. I’m also going to want to analyze the damages with you, analyze what it’s going to cost to fight. Is it worth it? And also look at the potential for future business, whether we can salvage this relationship, all of those important things should come into play.  We provide a free, substantive consultation and give good advice. Sometimes we’ll even advise our clients how we would think about it and then let them go talk to their partner or whoever they’re dealing with on their own armed with our knowledge and our negotiation technique.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

The Experience to Successfully Work Through a Business Partnership Dispute in San Diego or Anywhere in California

The Watkins Firm contributes more than 40 years of proven experience to successfully work through a business partnership dispute in San Diego or anywhere in California. These are delicate matters that require genuine, extensive experience, business acumen, legal insight and negotiation skill.  It may surprise you to learn that the Watkins Firm is able to resolve the vast majority of our partnership dispute cases through effective, leveraged negotiation.  This is the fastest, and least expensive way to resolve any dispute between business partners. When negotiation is unable to resolve all of the issues at hand, the parties may need to work through mediation or even arbitration as alternatives to a long, protracted and expensive court battle.

A dispute between partners, members or shareholders places your business at risk.  The proven dispute resolution attorneys at the Watkins Firm have the experience to successfully resolve a business partnership dispute in San Diego and Southern California .  We will protect all of your hard work and investment and develop a resolution which achieves your goals and protects your position.

We invite you to review our podcast Episode 11 – Resolving Business Disputes as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.  Learn more about our unique approach to partnership disputes and how we work to achieve the best possible solution based upon the challenges of your unique circumstances.