Are you searching for a business attorney near me in San Diego? Why do you need a proven and experienced business attorney for your San Diego or California company or practice? How can the Watkins Firm help California corporations and LLCs from their foundation through growth and prosperity?
What to Look For in a Business Attorney Near Me in San Diego:
- Experience is the first thing to look for when searching for a business attorney. You want a business lawyer who has “been there, done that,” and guided thousands of other businesses and companies just like yours to profitability and success.
- Your business attorney should be a trusted advisor, that you can pick up the phone and call for a quick question without getting a bill every time.
- Look for a firm that can handle every aspect of the life your business, from formation and contracts, through intellectual property, being a California employer amidst the most complex and challenging laws in the union, acquisitions, mergers, disputes and lawsuits, and ultimately, the sale of your business.
Business Attorney and General Counsel
Your San Diego business attorney near me in San Diego at the Watkins Firm has served as general counsel for hundreds of local and California businesses, corporations and LLCs across several decades (almost 40 years). We have in-depth experience and skill in many vertical niches as well as broad corporate, medical practice and healthcare business legal services. This experience provides insight for our clients when we serve as their “General Counsel.”
Your Business Coach and Adviser
Why is it that professional and Olympic athletes have coaches? These athletes are at the top of their craft and skill, competing worldwide for money, recognition and accomplishment. Yet they still need a coach to guide them through their development to help maximize their skills, improve upon areas of potential weakness and sharpen their individual strategy.
The same is true for any business. Your Watkins Firm experienced business attorney for your San Diego area company has guided businesses of all sizes through almost every foreseeable (and unforeseeable) challenge. We help to make sure your corporate veil is protected through corporate governance and compliance.
We advise San Diego employers in every area of employment from hiring through disciplinary and termination actions, and all associated disputes and lawsuits. We advise and defend San Diego employers from lawsuits such as unpaid overtime, wage and hour litigation, and PAGA lawsuits brought by federal agencies, California agencies, plaintiff’s attorneys, or the employees themselves. The best defense is a good offense. We help you to keep up with all existing and changes to Federal and California laws, ordinances, regulations, and compliance issues. We help to prevent disputes from having an opportunity to develop, and help you to quickly address and diffuse them efficiently when they arise.
Avoid the Pitfalls Which Cause Other Businesses to Fail
We help you to be aware of the pitfalls and issues that have held similar businesses back or opened them to liability. We help to ensure your business contracts protect the transactions and relationships which form the very life blood of your business. We resolve disputes between members in an LLC or shareholders in a corporation. Our clients respect our unique approach to disputes which is designed to bring prompt resolution in a cost-effective manner.
Pro-Tip: “We have of course, very knowledgeable attorneys, but we also have a higher percentage of support staff, paralegals, administrators in house, HR people so that when our clients have a basic question about employment practices and they don’t want to spend the high attorney rate, they can contact one of our administrators or one of our paralegals and ask a question, cost them a lot less money. And everybody here has been working on these cases for years and years. So the knowledge might not be at the fingertips of the employer, but we answer that same question every week for one of our clients.
After 35 years of doing this and after thousands of different companies, a lawyer tends to know more about how to run a business than most people would expect. We go to college for seven years, but we learned our whole career from other people’s mistakes and other people’s successes. When they come in, they tell us the story and we ask them questions about what kind of business this is going to be – we want to know from a lawyer’s perspective. Is this a high risk business? Is this a trending business? Is this a highly regulated business, those kind of things. So we can advise. And then we ask about other things and what they’re doing and just to get a gauge on how sophisticated they are or how unsophisticated they are so we can help.
We’ve had clients for decades. And when our clients do well, our attorneys feel like they’re doing well outside of whether they’re getting paid a whole bunch of money or not or fees or anything. We have long term clients. And our attorneys really feel good when things turn out for them because, on the litigation side, they go through stress and we go through stress. And when we resolve a dispute and our clients are happy, we’re happy. And we’re proud to help their transactions to flow smoothly.
Our clients have owned their company for years and years and years, and they want to sell it. They believe they have a good deal on the table and we want to do everything we can to make sure that goes smoothly. And our client gets all of their benefits of the bargain, everything they wanted. We want to do our best to make sure they get that. And if it happens and they’re happy, then we are proud. We’re very proud and we’re happy for them. So this combined knowing someone for 30+ years, their highs and lows, their difficult times, their good times, you can imagine, you really feel a bond for your clients.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner
Are You Searching for a Business Attorney near me in San Diego or Anywhere in California?
Are you searching for a business attorney near me in San Diego or anywhere in California? Are you looking for a firm who can handle everything from business formation and contracts through governance, growth, disputes and ultimately a merger or sale? The Watkins Firm brings 40+ years of experience serving the business, science and tech, real estate and medical / healthcare communities here in San Diego and across California. We invite you to review our podcast Episode 10 – The Importance of a Strong Corporate Attorney as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.
Meet Daniel Watkins:
Daniel W. Watkins is a true people person who sincerely listens. He cares deeply about what others are going through. Dan enjoys digging into the facts and finding creative solutions to problems. He contributes his insights candidly and constructively.
Dan’s interest in people make him deeply invested in every relationship and his exuberant personality makes him a true litigator. Dan fights for his clients with a fierce and calculated commitment.
Dan has practiced in the areas of business, medical practices and healthcare business, high tech/science, real estate and employment defense law since 1987. He is a trusted litigation strategist and true trial attorney with over 50 jury and bench trials to his credit. Dan has successfully represented both large companies and individuals and achieved substantial victories in well-publicized trials throughout California and the U.S.
He is experienced in business and corporate formation and administration, as well as all forms of alternative dispute resolution, including binding arbitration and mediation.
THE ROAD TO BECOMING A BUSINESS LAWYER AND LITIGATOR
Dan has almost 40 years of experience working with, for and against some of the largest insurance companies in the country. He has successfully tried and litigated cases in the areas of Healthcare Compliance, Commercial Litigation, Unfair Business Practices, Fraud, Breach of Contract, Battery, Premises Liability, Product Defect, Medical Malpractice, Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Construction Defect, as well as Unfair Competition, Defamation, and Trade Secrets.
In December 2003, Dan commenced litigation against Health South Surgery Centers-West, Inc and its’ subsidiaries, exposing the company’s extensive mismanagement and misconduct of its’ surgery centers. Dan has also been asked by some of California’s largest municipalities and corporations to conduct legally required investigations into matters involving alleged employment discrimination and harassment.
