Is it possible to prevent an expensive contract dispute before it ever happens?  Why are business contracts so important?  Any contract dispute in San Diego or throughout California can lead to expensive business litigation and consumption of valuable company resources.  Business contract disputes happen for one reason: poorly crafted business contracts.  The Watkins Firm has more than 40+ years of experience serving the business, science and tech, real estate and medical / healthcare communities here in San Diego and across California. We carefully craft our business contracts to remove as much of the gray areas and ambiguity as possible.  These are the issues where disagreement arise and become the source of expensive contract related disputes.

Tailoring Your Agreement(s) From Our Proprietary Library of Proven Business Contracts

When a company downloads contracts off of a paid legal website, or tries to edit a contract they found online they risk substantial litigation and liability under California business and contract law.  California has some of the most advanced and complex business laws in the United States.  These nuances must be addressed in every business contract.

The Watkins Firm has an extensive proprietary library of proven business contracts developed over more than four decades of experience here in California.  We don’t create contracts from scratch.  We select an existing, proven  contract from our library and custom tailor it to your unique specifications.  This ensures you have a proven, battle-tested contract at the lowest cost possible.

In addition, our effective business contract attorneys must anticipate every potential issue that might come up and every challenge that could interrupt an otherwise smooth business transaction or relationship.  We then specify the specific steps the parties will go through to work through these unexpected challenges in an orderly and cost-effective manner.  The underlying business contract itself is your best defense against any dispute or litigation in the future.

The Watkins Firm Can Help to Prevent an Expensive Contract Dispute

When a contract dispute arises your attorney at the Watkins Firm utilizes a unique approach to resolve the contract dispute.  It may surprise you to learn the Watkins Firm is able to resolve the vast majority of business contract disputes through effective and leveraged negotiation.  We work to thoroughly document the chronology of events and identify all of the potential damages as these are the keys to litigation in San Diego.  We use this information and the associated damages as leverage to open constructive negotiations with the other party.  Opposing counsel know that the Watkins Firm can handle your dispute through negotiation, mediation, arbitration or a trial.  They know our track record of success and this provides additional leverage to successfully achieve our client’s goals and objectives.

Pro-Tip: “Contracts are essential to staying out of court. if you have it in writing between the parties and all of the what ifs are covered, you’ve got it made. If you don’t and something happens in one of those areas you didn’t think of, then people are going to say, well, I remember this and I remember that we have something called the parole evidence rule , its not about going to court. It’s about a contract and what is within the four corners of that agreement is all we can rely on. And if it’s there’s something that’s missing from that, that time is when we can go outside and hear testimony and emails and bubblegum wrappers that people wrote things on. And we have a fight. So getting your contract written by an attorney or using the proper approved forms for the state is really important to avoiding these types of disputes.

Believe it or not, some lawyers will copy templates without doing any research. We have an extensive proprietary contract library, we pay thousands of dollars a month to keep us aware of when our existing library of contracts are not in compliance with the law, or there’s been new cases. Because every time someone goes to trial and then loses and takes it upon appeal, some appellate court changes the law or the legislature, the State of California comes up with a new law and a new type of business that applies to the contract. So our proprietary contract libraries are based on programs that are updated with new laws to consider when preparing our agreements for our clients and some law firms don’t have that. They just go by general research. They do freehand and old forms, which is, frankly, it can be scary.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

Is it possible to prevent an expensive contract dispute in California?  Any contract dispute can lead to expensive litigation as well as consumption of resources and time.  We invite you to review our podcast Episode 15 – Contract Law as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.