What should you look for in an effective San Diego investor dispute attorney? What are the most efficient California dispute resolution strategies? Why is business litigation and trial experience an essential ingredient to preventing protracted and expensive litigation?
3 Important Takeaways When Searching for an Effective San Diego Investor Dispute Attorney:
- Experience is one of the most important tools for resolving any business dispute. Look for a business dispute, lawsuit, and litigation firm with decades of proven experience who are willing to share multiple strategies to efficiently resolve your dispute at hand.
- A thoroughly documented chronology of events and a mastery of the available damages are the keys your effective San Diego investor dispute attorney at Watkins Firm will use to gain the attention of opposing parties and their counsel, and open leveraged negotiations.
- Mediation and arbitration are two effective tools to avoid litigation in Court or a full trial. Look for an attorney who is focused on resolving the dispute at hand while accomplishing your specific goals and objectives.
Based upon the Watkins Firm’s more than four decades of service to San Diego and California partnerships and individual investors, partners, shareholders, and members, I can tell you the most important thing to look for in a partnership dispute lawyer may surprise you:
The most important trait of an effective partnership dispute attorney in San Diego is experience resulting in a proven track record of resolving business disputes effectively and quickly.
A Negotiated Settlement Usually Resolves Investor Disputes
It may surprise you to learn your effective San Diego investor dispute attorney at the Watkins Firm is able to resolve the vast majority of disputes and lawsuits between investors and other business partners and associates through a leveraged negotiated settlement. However, the experience and expertise of your lawyer in mediation, arbitration and trial is an important part of the leverage needed to gain the attention of opposing parties, accomplish your goals, and resolve matters quickly while accomplishing your own goals and objectives. We begin by efficiently creating a thorough, well-documented chronology of events, as well as a mastery of all available damages. These are the tools necessary to engage opposing parties and communicate the seriousness of the situation, and our intention to engage and resolve the matter at hand.
Pro-Tip: “we want to get the facts down and we want the evidence our clients have in chronological order, because that’s the best way to communicate to the other party, to a third 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 also want something more from you than just to analyze the damages, we need to analyze what it’s going to cost to fight. And also look at the future of potential business, whether we can salvage this relationship, all of those important things should come into play, as we give good advice.
Knowing the facts, the damages, the law of the damages is key, because that gives your lawyer the ability to predict what would happen if you went to trial tomorrow and you won, what would you win? That’s it, that’s the number. Because in civil court, we’re only looking at dollar amounts, getting to an agreement, and understanding human nature.
You need to talk to a good lawyer right away. A lawyer who’s done this, and understands you and your unique circumstances and goals. For example, we had a case a long time ago, nine or 10 doctors were working together in our medical practice. And our two or three doctors were worried about something. They came to us, and over that weekend, the managing members of the medical corporation took the entire practice, and moved. They changed its phone number, location, changed its mailing address and took all the money and assets and bank accounts. They didn’t even tell where the other partners where they were going. Our clients showed up for work on Monday and there was no more work. They had disappeared overnight down the street to a different facility with instructions to keep them out. Unbelievable. So knowing something might be going on is the time to come to your lawyer so that we can do things to a) discover, whether there’s really something going on, and b, share the proven strategies and remedies in the law that can stop that.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner
You Need An Experienced and Effective San Diego Investor Dispute Attorney
How can a serious, experienced, and effective San Diego investor dispute attorney make a difference in your California business partner dispute matter? When opposing counsel realize you are represented by the Watkins Firm, they know you are serious about the matter at hand and are represented by attorneys who are willing and able to take the case through to a successful jury verdict. It is rarely in the interests of an investor or business partner to go to trial due to the time frames and expense involved. However, the mere fact that our legal team is proven and prepared increases risk for the other party. It is this risk, and our preparation that moves them to work to resolve the case.
Most attorneys simply do not have an extensive track record in trial. Many have actually never taken a case to a jury verdict (incredible!).
We understand business. We understand the nature of business relationships and the personal relationships that often intertwine with investors and/or the management of a company. The expense of dispute is directly associated to the time it takes to resolve it, as well as the extent of the potential damages involved. What are your goals? How do you want the dispute to be resolved? Our attorneys share our real world experience, legal expertise and unique strategies to accomplish those goals and move the dispute to resolution.
If you are looking for an experienced, cost effective and successful investor dispute attorney in San Diego we invite you to review our podcast Episode 11 – Resolving Business Disputes as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.
Meet Dan Watkins:
Daniel W. Watkins is a true people person who sincerely listens. He cares about things that occur in other people’s lives. Dan enjoys digging into the facts and finding creative solutions to problems. He is not shy about giving his opinion either.
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 seasoned litigator 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.
