Business litigation requires skilled business attorneys to achieve the best possible outcome in a timely and cost-effective manner.  Your attorneys must be prepared to take your case to trial and have the legal experience, skill and expertise to prevail.   Interestingly, it is this experience and capability (the proven ability to take the case to trial and win) that provides the Watkins firm with the leverage needed to achieve your goals and objectives in a much more timely and cost-efficient manner.

The highly skilled business litigation attorneys at the Watkins Firm have more than four decades of business litigation experience in San Diego Courts, and throughout the State of California, as well as a long and proven track record of successful outcomes at trial.  It is this reputation and track record in trial which strengthens our ability to negotiate a positive resolution.  Opposing counsel know our reputation.  They know our aggressive and successful process.  They know it is better to settle the case in a positive manner quickly and cost-effectively than to engage in a drawn out battle they are likely to ultimately lose.

Business litigation in San Diego requires skilled business attorneys. Our unique approach to litigation ensures our client’s best interests are accomplished in this timely and cost-effective manner.  While preparing from the outset for trial, our attorneys work to efficiently develop a thorough, well-documented chronology of events as well as a mastery of the damages associated with the dispute at hand. These tools provide the leverage to open constructive and effective negotiations, clearly establish our client’s position and to establish a reasonable path to resolution.  While there are usually principled areas of disagreement, our attorneys have the integrity to hear these out, find common ground and work through the dispute to find a resolution which achieves our client’s goals.

The interesting dichotomy associated with business litigation is it is our established and proven track record at trial, and thorough preparation at the outset that allows the Watkins Firm to resolve the vast majority of these cases through effective leveraged negotiation. This is the most cost-efficient and timely path to resolve any sort of business litigation while accomplishing our client’s goals and objectives.

When necessary and appropriate, we look to cost-effective alternatives such as business mediation and arbitration to resolve these cases efficiently and successfully.  Business litigation in San Diego requires skilled business attorneys with the battle hardened successful and proven track record at trial, backed by the integrity and practical approach of resolving business disputes in a productive, timely and cost-effective way.

Pro-Tip: “Well, because we start with this chronology, mastery of the damages, and all of our philosophies on how to prepare a case, we’re ready to go to trial. And we’ve tried lots of cases. If it’s a trial, we really enjoy jury trials. If it’s arbitration, we’ve been around so long, we’re comfortable with the arbitrators.  And then jury trials, we’ve tried so many jury trials that we really feel comfortable picking a jury going through the jury selection process. Our whole team knows how to get all the exhibits ready, comply with all the court, local rules, having everything professional and laid out, having your expert witnesses, ready to go. You put on a show, we enjoy doing it. We don’t think we should have to do it that much. We should. We’d rather settle. But when we go to trial, we like getting that big jury verdict. It’s just wonderful.

I think we have a good reputation here and we have excellent litigators here. We have older lawyers here and who have got a good track record that’ll let any opposing council know if you want to go to trial with us, we’re fine with it. We’ve been there before and done that. And we’ve had some pretty amazing, you know, defense, verdicts and plaintiff verdicts. It definitely doesn’t hurt, you know, facing off against opposing council. When they know if they want spend a year and a half, two and a half years going to court. When we go to trial, we got a good chance we’re going to win. And if you’re on a contingency, you may just have spent an entire two and a half years for nothing.

And some of our clients request we go to trial, even though it be cheaper, not to go, they say, ‘no, it’s a matter of principle,’ and we try to talk them out of it. But if they’re steadfast on going to trial, we’re looking forward to it.  The other side knows we’re more than ready for trial, and we’ve won a lot of them.  This makes it much more likely, in the end, that they will want to find a way to settle things, resolve the litigation at hand, and move forward.  That’s fine, as long as it accomplishes our client’s goals and objectives!” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

If you are involved in a business to business dispute  we invite you to review our podcast Episode 12 – Business Dispute Resolution as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.