Why is it so important to work with the San Diego contract attorneys at the Watkins Firm?  Business contracts can prevent a breach of contract before it happens, while locking in success in most or all of your transactions.

One of the best reasons to hire the Watkins firm to negotiate and develop your business contracts in San Diego and throughout California is the ability to prevent costly, time-consuming disputes while increasing the likelihood that each of your transactions with other companies, suppliers, customers and even your employees will be more consistently successful.  An effective agreement clearly establishes the responsibilities of the parties while establishing a clear “roadmap” that will ultimately result in the successful completion of a transaction.  Business contracts can prevent a breach of contract before it happens, setting clear, achievable performance milestones so that neither party is surprised along the way, and identify when terms of the agreement have been breached and how disputes will be resolved.

The Watkins Firm brings more than four decades of experience over hundreds of thousands of transactions to work for your business to ensure that potential hazards are identified and avoided, and that contract terms are clear and enforceable.  Contracts are the heart of any business, and we are committed to developing agreements that protect our clients while moving them forward to the successful completion of each transaction and ultimately the accomplishment of their business goals and objectives.  Effective business contracts can prevent a breach of contract and increase your company’s profitability.  After all, “The conduct of business is only as effective as the contracts that govern it.”

Pro-Tip: “A business contract serves as a roadmap. What we do in drafting contracts is the same thing you would do – one might say, ‘I will give you this for that.’ But business contracts get more complicated. So as lawyers, we get trained in creating these, ‘what if’ checklists in these contracts. So, you might have a contract with four terms, but on our business contract, we have a checklist of about 50 terms. And we assume that you’re both parties will want these to be part of the agreement. And also we’ll ask our clients questions about all these, what ifs. And that is how the roadmap of a contract is created.

Damages are what the law can afford you in a civil case. In a criminal matter, the law can afford you incarceration of the offending criminal, but in a civil matter, since your contract and your agreement was mostly about money, then you get money back. And the only time you don’t just get money is when it’s a case where a law will afford you an injunctive or provisional remedy, which is for unique types of damages and unusual circumstances.

The primary remedy for a business breach of contract is damages. That’s the term a lot of people don’t understand. What are damages?

When I advise my clients, I tell them the most important item in litigation is not whether you are liable or they’re liable, or somebody breached. I say the three most important things in a lawsuit are: damages damages damages.

And I say, it just like, you know, location, location, location, because it’s that important in the type of damages you can obtain are so varied that if you focus on whether you’ve been damaged under the law, there will be a statute or a case that says you are entitled to those damages. So if you track it backwards from I lost a hundred thousand dollars in this deal and how you lost it on those facts and what you did lose, you’ll probably find 99% of the time, a statute or a law or a case or something that gives you a remedy, a right to those damages and how you can collect.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

Isn’t your business worth the experience and expertise of a firm with the resources and services of the largest law firm, and the responsiveness and efficiency of a local boutique law practice?  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.