Are you searching for an experienced and proven breach of contract dispute resolution attorney in San Diego or anywhere throughout California? When a breach of contract or other contract related disagreement arises how should a small to mid-sized business person handle the situation? If you are the victim of the breach of contract are you aware of your legal obligation to mitigate the damages associated with the breach? What do you need to know in order to manage a business contract dispute?
Key Takeaways When Searching for a Breach of Contract Dispute Resolution Attorney:
- If you believe you are involved in a contract dispute or a potential breach of contract, you should immediately call an experienced breach of contract dispute resolution attorney for sound advice and counsel through a free consultation.
- Breach of contract cases are very fact specific, and a thorough chronology and mastery of the damages are the keys to finding an effective resolution.
- Look for attorneys with extensive experience in every legal venue, including mediation, arbitration, and at trial.
A Thorough Free Consultation With an Experienced, Proven Breach of Contract Attorney
Don’t you wish you could simply make a call and get real insight into your breach of contract case and how it can be resolved? We invite you to place a call to an experienced breach of contract dispute resolution attorney at the Watkins Firm at (858) 535-1511. We have four decades of proven experience resolving San Diego and California contract disputes quickly and cost-effectively. Let’s discuss the specifics of your case so that we can give you a better understanding of your position and the best path(s) to success.
Your breach of contract dispute attorney in San Diego at the Watkins Firm has a strong track record of success in business litigation verdicts across California. We work to quickly and cost-effectively create a thorough, well-documented chronology of events and a mastery of any associated damages. These tools provide the leverage needed to capture the attention of opposing parties (and their counsel) and open negotiations to resolve the dispute. In fact, Watkins Firm attorneys are able to resolve the vast majority of our business and contract disputes through a negotiated settlement. This is the fastest and least expensive tactic for resolving our client’s cases while accomplishing their goals.
Why Does Trial Experience Matter in a Breach of Contract Dispute?
Why would the experience and extensive legal skill associated with decades of trial experience and successful verdicts be an important ingredient in this equation?
Successful negotiations are based on many ingredients. One of the most important ingredients is leverage. Your breach of contract dispute attorney from the Watkins Firm can represent you at every step of a contract dispute resolution: negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation.
Our trial experience tells opposing counsel and parties that we are serious about resolving the dispute and willing to take your case before a jury or Judge in order to do so. They also know we are likely to achieve a strong result. This leverage also communicates to the opposition that you have the strength, power and successful strategies proven across several decades on your side of the equation, and are ready and willing for any potential legal venue.
In order to avoid the costs and timeframe associated with a Court appearance, opposing counsel are more likely to engage in constructive negotiations and mediation in order to reach a settlement which meets or exceeds our client’s goals and objectives. They know the next step is either arbitration or trial, and we are prepared to present a strong case for our clients.
Pro-Tip: “So the idea, if you’re the party that’s caused the breach, would usually be to minimize the risk of the damages downstream, and resolve the matter quickly and efficiently. However, it’s even more complicated and deeper than that. You don’t have to decide that you are the person that breached because most people, their ego won’t let them do that. But if you’re being accused of breaching any contract (or believe you have), the first thing you and your lawyer should talk about or think about is how to quantify potential damages and the actions you can take with very little expense to limit those damages.
There’s there’s so many situations where looking at the damages can give you a great advantage, even when you’re on the defense side or the plaintiff side, because that’s what you’re fighting about.
People who enter into most contracts we sue over, have some sort of bargaining power, or they don’t have a form of bargaining power, meaning lawsuits cost money. Sometimes people enter contracts and they know they’re probably going to breach, but they figure it’s worth it. I mean, there’s so many other subtle things that we as lawyers think about, just beyond the basic breach, and the consideration of damages. There’s so many more complicated things, because you’re going to battle with somebody over a breach of the contract, and the party who is the victim of the breach needs to find out whether they can collect. Some of these contracts are entered into by tiny corporations with no assets. And so they breach and they don’t care if you sue them because they’re never boing to be able to pay.
So all those little subtle things about real life, how to sue somebody or how to defend a lawsuit for breach of contract, they come into play because after there’s a judgment, there’s still a collection process before there’s a payment. There’s what’s going to happen, if you are sued, to your reputation? If you sue some somebody for breach of contract, can they sue you back? There are issues of timing. Should you sue now? Or should you wait? What is the defendant doing in their life? What are you doing in your life? How is this all going to affect you? All those things are the kind of details and issues you wouldn’t learn in law school, but you learn after almost 40 years of doing this, and suing someone for breach of contract or defending someone for breach of contract gets much more complicated than just knowing the law.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner
Contact a Successful, Proven Breach of Contract Dispute Attorney in San Diego
We invite you to review our podcast Episode 5 – Breach of Contract as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today. Speak directly with an experienced breach of contract dispute attorney in San Diego. Learn about our unique approach to contract disputes, our success with breach of contract cases and the steps we can take to resolve this matter promptly and efficiently.
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.
