Choosing Your San Diego Business Attorney

Why is choosing your San Diego business attorney one of the most important business decisions you may ever make? Every successful business person needs 3 reliable, experienced and proven business partners:

An experienced business attorney

A competent accounting and tax advisor

A banking relationship or reliable source of financing

When should you turn for advice from your business attorney? How can the right business attorneys help you and your company to increase profit and ensure the success of your business? What should you look for in a San Diego business attorney?

Experience Helps You Accomplish Goals More Quickly

The first thing to look for in a San Diego business attorney is experience, especially in your industry or vertical market. An experienced business attorney knows the specific nature of your business and the challenges you will face at every step of your growth. They know the pitfalls which have arisen for other businesses like your own, and how to avoid them before they ever arise. An experienced San Diego business attorney provides sound advice and counsel to ensure your business is built upon a strong foundation while complying with all federal, state and local laws and regulatory issues.

Your Watkins Firm business attorney is someone you can call for a quick and accurate answer, or a trusted friend you can draw upon to accomplish a business goal or resolve a substantial challenge. We bring more than four decades of business experience and perspective to the table to help you to talk through where you are, where you’re going and how to get there. We’re also there to support our clients when an unexpected challenge arises.

A Broad Range of Business Skill and Legal Services

The second thing to look for when choosing your San Diego business attorney is the business skill and legal services to support you in every phase of your business and growth. Your business attorney should help you to form your original entity and work with you to structure additional entities as you grow and expand your business or acquire competitors or their assets.

Your business attorney must provide well crafted, proven business contracts which form the foundation of every transaction or business relationship you or your company will enter into. We draw upon our own extensive library of proven business contracts as well as up-to-date external subscriptions. One should never attempt to download a contract and modify it themselves. We save our clients money by tailoring a proven contract to their unique application, while providing the protections necessary to ensure an enforceable contract which will lead to a successful outcome.

You will need to protect the ideas, inventions, unique processes, logos and work product of your business, known as “Intellectual Property or IP” which includes trademarks and copyrights and how to leverage your IP through licensing or distribution to expand into new geographies or vertical market spaces.

The Ability to Resolve any Dispute Quickly and Efficiently

The ability to resolve any business dispute which may arise quickly and efficiently is another trait you should look for when choosing your San Diego business attorney. We have developed a unique style and approach which is specifically designed to resolve business disputes and litigation quickly and in a cost-effective manner.

The Watkins Firm is able to resolve most business-related disputes through effective, leveraged negotiation. This is the fastest and least expensive way to accomplish our client’s goals and objectives. Our proven track record in mediation, arbitration and litigation extends from massive, national cases in 1980’s to almost every form of business dispute in today’s rapidly changing business environment.

Will you have employees? We believe California is the most difficult and challenging environments for any employer. You will need a lawyer with extensive experience advising and defending San Diego employers. Issues related to your responsibilities as an employer and challenges associated with employees are some of the greatest opportunities and challenges you will encounter in your business pursuits.

If you are any sort of a success in business you will ultimately and perhaps often have to face the challenge of business disputes and business litigation. Your business attorney should help to resolve business disputes quickly and an in a cost effective manner.