What are the fastest, most cost-efficient, and effective business dispute resolution strategies here in San Diego and across California?  The answer may surprise you.  It takes more than a year to get most business litigation before a Judge, and the costs are simply prohibitive compared to the relative gain for most scenarios.  What happens to these cases in reality?  Would it surprise you to learn the Watkins Firm is able to resolve the vast majority of our business disputes and lawsuits cases through effective, leveraged negotiation?

The business dispute resolution attorneys at the Watkins Firm have 40+ years of experience serving the business, science and tech, real estate and medical / healthcare communities here in San Diego and throughout California.

Our success is based upon our unique approach to litigation.  We understand our client’s goals and objectives.  Usually this includes:

• Resolve the dispute quickly and cost-effectively
• Preserve as much success from the transaction or relationship as possible
• Repair the underlying business relationship – it’s hard to find good business partners

Most large law firms foster an atmosphere aggressive posturing and attempts at intimidation.  They earn their profit by working your “file” through the firm ensuring that as many people “touch the file” and bill time to your case each month.  We have a different value system when approaching business disputes.  We work quickly and efficiently to develop a thorough, well-documented chronology of events and and accurate estimate of potential damages.

Our thorough chronology and mastery of the damages are the key to gaining effective leverage.  We use this information to get the attention of opposing parties while working to establish a more collaborative approach to resolving the issue(s) at hand.  We get straight to the core of the dispute while identifying potential areas of common ground or potential settlement that will resolve the dispute or lawsuit while accomplishing our client’s objectives.  The effective business dispute resolution strategies of the Watkins Firm allow us to resolve the vast majority of our business disputes through effective, leveraged negotiation.  This is the fastest, and least expensive route to resolve any business dispute.

Pro-Tip: “We want to get the facts down and we want the evidence they have in chronological order, because that’s the best way to communicate to the other party, to anyone is in chronological order. That’s how we think. Then I want to help our clients analyze the damages. Whether you are feeling like they owe you something, they’re not complying with the agreement or vice versa. So I want to want something more from you than just the nature of the dispute itself.  We need to analyze the damages, analyze what it’s going to cost to fight.

We also look at the future business, and whether we can salvage this relationship, all of those important things should come into play.  We give good advice to our clients, and several options to resolve the issue(s) at hand. Sometimes we’ll even advise our clients how we would think about it and then let them go talk to their partner or whoever they’re dealing with on their own armed with our knowledge and our negotiation technique.

They are married to the dispute. So they’re married to every little fact. And if they have any kind of good business skills, we can coach them give them the law in layman’s terms so that when they negotiate, they’re negotiating with the knowledge of what we would say and even more facts.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

Effective business dispute resolution in San Diego comes down to a mastery of the chronology of events and associated damages, experience, legal and negotiation skills, and extensive experience in business mediation, arbitration and at trial.  The attorneys at the Watkins Firm are small business people ourselves.  We understand the true nature of business and the value of relationships.  Our tactics most often result in faster and less expensive resolution that gets the relationship or transaction moving forward in a positive manner.

If you are searching for experienced, proven, effective business dispute resolution in San Diego we invite you to review our podcast Episode 11 – 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.