Are there proven strategies to resolve your partnership dispute in San Diego or anywhere in California?  How can the Watkins Firm’s unique dispute resolution approach resolve business disputes in the shortest possible time frame and in a cost efficient manner while accomplishing your goals and objectives?

Partnership disputes generally involve one or more of the following:

• Disputes about money or profit distribution
• Concerns regarding partner(s) carrying their weight
• Issues regarding bringing in new partners or investment
• Questions regarding the direction of the company
• Violations or Breach of fiduciary duty or competing with the partnership
• Theft or commingling

The Watkins Firm brings more than 40 years of experience and proven strategies to resolve your partnership dispute.  It should please you to learn the Watkins Firm is able to resolve the vast majority of ownership disputes including partners, members in an LLC or shareholder disputes through effective, leveraged negotiation.  Your Watkins Firm attorney works to identify the core issue(s) in dispute and the goals and objectives of our clients.  We work efficiently to organize and document a thorough chronology of events as well as a mastery of the potential for any financial damages.  These tools are the leverage that is usually enough to resolve the dispute through negotiation.  This is the fastest and least expensive way to resolve your partnership dispute in San Diego or anywhere in California.

There may be part of an issue or a few issues that cannot be resolved through negotiations alone.  In these cases we represent our clients in settlement conferences, business mediation, and when necessary, arbitration or trial.  Each method of dispute resolution option has advantages and disadvantages.  For example, Arbitration is designed to bring any partnership or business dispute to resolution.  However, this option is much more legally structured and requires the parties to submit to the ultimate authority of the arbiter.  The decision of the arbiter is final and cannot be appealed unless exceptional circumstances exist such as collusion between the parties.

Mediation is a confidential environment which keeps details of the dispute out of the public record.  Mediation allows the Watkins Firm and our clients to maintain a higher level of influence upon the process and ultimate outcome while often reducing the costs of resolution.

Business litigation in a court of law is usually reserved as a final alternative due to issues of time and associated costs.  These proven strategies to resolve your partnership dispute in San Diego or anywhere in California efficiently and quickly are intertwined with experience and legal skill.

Pro-Tip: “Well, if you’re going to be in a partnership dispute, you should know what the future holds for you. And the future for you is hopefully effective, leveraged negotiation and resolution.

We want to get the facts down and we want the evidence they 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. So I want you to gain something more than just an analysis of the damages, we want you to know what it’s going to cost to fight. We also look at the future potential for business. Whether we can salvage this relationship, all of those important things should come into play. 

We are going to give you 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. That often works.

If that doesn’t work, you may be in some sort of arbitration or trial, but before you get to an arbitration date or a trial, you’re likely going to be end up in a mediation or a settlement conference, meaning you’re going to have to go talk to a judge or a learned attorney about your dispute and have them try to help you resolve it.

If you are involved in a San Diego partnership dispute 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.