Are you searching for an efficient approach to resolve your business dispute in San Diego or anywhere in California quickly and cost-effectively?  What should a business owner do if they become involved in a legal dispute or a lawsuit?  The unique approach to disputes and litigation taken by the business attorneys at the Watkins Firm ensures prompt and efficient business dispute resolution.  The majority of these cases are resolved through effective negotiation.  Negotiation is the fastest and least expensive strategy for resolving a business dispute in San Diego.  The Watkins Firm brings decades of successful San Diego business conflict negotiation and litigation experience and expertise to your side of a business dispute.

We work to quickly establish the facts of your case and the core issues associated with the dispute.  What are your goals and objectives for the dispute, and what would an ideal resolution look like to you?  Our attorneys then work to develop leverage in order to gain the attention of the other party, and to engage them in a constructive conversation.  We are small business people ourselves.  We understand the nature of business disputes, and the value of the business relationships that lie beneath them.  We work to repair and preserve the important business relationships for our clients, while resolving the issues of the dispute.

The Watkins Firm’s efficient approach to resolve your business dispute is focused on solving the challenge at hand.  We negotiate “settlement agreements” and contract modifications that allow the parties to complete the transaction or continue the profitable relationship they enjoy.  When there are principled issues of disagreement, we represent our clients in mediation and arbitration.  Mediation relies upon a neutral third party, who helps the parties to more thoroughly understand each other’s position.  The mediator will suggest alternatives, and combines his or her knowledge of the business issues at hand with legal expertise and real world experience.  The recommendations of the mediator are often quite helpful and often resolve part or all of a business dispute.  Another advantage of mediation is privacy.  The old saying “what happens in mediation, stays in mediation” is based upon the fact that mediation is private, confidential venue that keeps business and financial information out of the public record.  Information and evidence provided in mediation, as well as any tentative agreements or offers remain contained within the bubble of “mediation” and do not simply pass through to any subsequent legal venue.

When mediation is unsuccessful, the next steps are usually arbitration or business litigation in a court of law.  The attorneys at the Watkins Firm represent you in each step of the process when necessary.  Our successful track record at trial provides necessary credibility early on in the process.  Opposing counsel know we are willing and able to take the matter to trial, and this provides additional leverage to your side of the dispute throughout each step of the resolution process.

Pro-Tip: “In a business dispute usually its really clear who broke the agreement. However, businesses operate on a longitudinal graph of time. So if you just analyze this person broke this agreement with me today and don’t analyze what the value of the overall investment is, right then you’re not really doing yourself anything good. You’re just being too focused on one little breach.

When you could focus on that breach, balanced against how much profit I made over the years, balanced against my total investment balanced against, you know, do I want to continue on all those factors, which believe it or not we have experts for, they can put it in a number if we have to go to trial, but we can also talk intelligently with our clients about, okay, let’s put some numbers and value on this. And so that we’re not thinking too narrowly in a small box, we’re thinking outside the box and we know what we’re talking about. And what’s good for us as a business decision and as a legal decision.

The outcome is we either have a real simple resolution and they go their own ways or we have a complex resolution or they agree on some kind of compensation and they agree on what to do going forward. Because they’re usually tied together almost like a marriage. And so you just can’t say it’s over because you didn’t pay me that $5,000 you owed me because there’s all these other entitlements and agreements and considerations you have to think about when moving forward.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

Our efficient approach to resolve your business dispute is designed specifically to bring resolution quickly and cost-effectively. 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.