Why should every company, no matter how large or small, have a business attorney?  An experienced business attorney can improve your business, answer important questions, and help you to avoid pitfalls while steadily growing your company and increasing it’s value and success.   Your business attorney should be one of your strongest and most trusted business advisors.  Effective, successful business leaders, owners, and managers requires insight into all challenges and opportunities a business will face as it develops and grows.  How can a Watkins Firm business lawyer with more than four decades of experience contribute to the growth and success of your company?

3 Key Takeaways about How an Experienced business Attorney Can Improve Your Business:

• An experienced business lawyer has “been there, done that.” Experience is borne of challenges, successes, and yes, failures.  An effective business attorney has worked with companies like yours through all types of business environments, economy swings, labor challenges, disputes and lawsuits.  They can help you to be aware of potential traps and pitfalls and avoid them.
• Your business attorney will be needed at every point in your company’s life, from startup to a merger or acquisition, and in your roles as an employer, as a supplier, as a customer, as a leader, and as a problem solver.
• Business disputes are inevitable.  You need a reliable business lawyer who can and will resolve these challenges quickly and cost-efficiently, and, in many cases prevent a dispute before it has a chance to arise.

What Contributions Can a Business Lawyer Make to Your Company?

Business law relates to any legal aspect concerning business or corporate formation and operations, as well as the associated contracts.  It also encompasses areas of dispute and business related litigation, mediation and arbitration.  The Watkins firm has served San Diego businesses and owners for several decades, extending services to thousands of area business and healthcare related interests.  How can a Watkins Firm business attorney improve your San Diego company or corporation?  We provide sound advice and counsel at every point in the journey of your business including, but not limited to:

• Start-up or Business Formation
• Ownership Agreements
• Guidance for Employers including Employment Defense, Employee Contracts, Policies procedures, Handbooks and oversight
• Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets
• Business Contracts: Employees, Suppliers & Vendors, Customers, Distribution
• Mergers and Acquisitions – a key to growth and increased profitability for any company
• Shareholder/Member Disputes
• Business Litigation
• Sale of a Business or Dissolution

Every Successful California Business Will Encounter Business Disputes and Lawsuits

Every successful California business will eventually encounter a business dispute or become involved in a lawsuit.  The Watkins Firm has 40+ years of experience serving the business, science and tech, real estate and medical / healthcare communities here in San Diego and across California.  Business disputes are inevitable for a successful company.  It might be an internal dispute with a minority shareholder, investor, or a fellow member in an LLC.  One of the most common forms of business disputes revolve around breach of contract, and other contract-related disputes.

California is the most challenging state in which to be an employer.  As experienced employment defense attorneys we can tell you the key is to take action immediately, as soon as you get a sense something is up.  We invite you to simply pick up the phone and call us for a free consultation at 858-535-1511.  It won’t cost you anything, and we can tell you if it’s nothing, or if there is a genuine issue to be concerned about.

The Watkins Firm takes a unique approach to business disputes and lawsuits, specifically designed to resolve them efficiently.  We work to quickly and thoroughly develop a well-documented chronology of events as well as a mastery of any associated damages.  These are the keys to resolving any dispute quickly, and cost effectively.  It may help to learn that Watkins Firm is able to resolve the vast majority of our business dispute and lawsuit cases through effective, leveraged negotiation.  This is the fastest, and least expensive way to resolve any business dispute, while protecting and accomplishing our client’s goals and objectives.

Pro-Tip: ” if you’re a company owner and you are trying to do everything right in the best way you can for your company, you’re going to have general counsel. You probably already do, and that attorney or couple of attorneys or law firm will advise you on things that have to do with your business, your field specifically, and in general, you’ll also have a banking relationship because opportunities come along and if you wait to go get your banking relationship started, you’re behind the eight ball. And also expenses happen. You need to have some kind of a flexibility there, some backup. And finally, and maybe most importantly, you’ll have some type of accountant who’s a professional. I’m not talking about if you’re still just using a C P A or your tax guy for your taxes. I’m talking about how do you define what is profit? How do you define it to match what you are doing to match tax deductions, to match zoning, to match licensing, to match future sales, your exit strategy, to match all those things. How do you get your accounting? What is actually important to you? What is a real profit to you that’s your professional accountant who you talk to on a monthly or quarterly basis?

I often think about the concept of a professional or Olympic coach.  Olympians and professional athletes are at the top of their game. They’re rich, they’re making money, they’re performing at the highest level, and yet they all have a coach. It’s the same concept, just a lot less expensive!

If you speak with a Watkins Firm business attorney or corporate counsel and you say, ‘What’s the best way to form this new venture?’ or, ‘How can I take my business to the next level?’, we’re not going to charge you a lot of money. We bring decades of experience, we’re going to look at your question(s), your existing situation, spend maybe a couple hours, maybe four hours max.

You might spend a thousand dollars and you’ll have somebody that now knows your business, knows your goals, knows what you’re trying to achieve, and can worry for you. We already know what to worry about. We’ve probably had a thousand clients just like you, go down that same road, and seeing the horror stories and the successes, and we can tell you, ‘oh, I like what you’re doing here.’ Or ‘Maybe you should watch for that.’ And you can pick up the phone and it costs you less than probably your cable bill per month. And you’ve got someone there who can give you advice that’ll save you tens of thousands of dollars or make you hundreds of thousands of dollars.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

A Watkins Firm Experienced Business Attorney Can Improve Your Business or Corporation

Business law in the context of a San Diego or a California business or corporation involves sound business counsel and legal services based upon extensive experience serving companies just like yours.  It doesn’t matter where you are in the life of your business.  We can provide sound counsel, efficient and effective legal services, resolve problems, and help to protect what you’ve built to date and grow your company going forward.

We provide sound counsel and strategies that prevent employment defense issues and litigation such as wage and hour disputes before they ever arise.  We help you to acquire the assets of another business or the stock of the company itself.  Ultimately, when and if the time comes we help you to successfully prepare your business for sale and work through the buy / sell agreement to complete the sale of your interests while positioning yourself for the next opportunity.

How can a Watkins Firm experienced business attorney improve your San Diego company or corporation?  We invite you to review our podcast Episode 38 – What is a General Counsel as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.