Resolve Your Failure to Pay Business Dispute
40+ Years of Experience – Timely, Cost-Efficient Strategies
There are hundreds of scenarios and reasons why businesses, their owners, investors, shareholders, and vendors become involved in failure to pay business disputes here in San Diego and throughout California. Your case may involve a breach of contract, the failure to declare or pay dividends, a dispute over payment on a construction project, a client’s failure to pay for services rendered, a dispute over money between business owners, members, shareholders, or investors, or some other disagreement over an element of a business transaction and associated payment.
If you are concerned about the failure to pay in a business setting, what legal solutions and potential remedies should you be aware of?
Legal Solutions when Business Partners and Companies Become Involved in Litigation for Non-payment
The Watkins Firm has 40+ years of experience serving the business, science and tech, real estate, and medical / healthcare communities here in San Diego and throughout California. We provide a free consultation for each client that helps quantify the objectives associated with the dispute and the potential cost for disputes similar to the one you presently face.
The Watkins Firm has developed a unique approach to business disputes and litigation specifically designed to resolve your case and failure to pay business disputes in a timely, cost-effective manner. Our skilled attorneys work to quickly develop a thorough, well-documented chronology of events and a mastery of associated damages. Often, the first steps involve guiding our clients through informal steps to resolve disputes. After verifying the contractual terms associated with the dispute, we work with clients to ensure proper payment reminders and offers to negotiate some form of payment plan have been exhausted.
A carefully crafted demand letter helps to
- clarify the situation
- state the amount(s) owed, as well as any penalties or interest (if applicable)
- request immediate payment
- warn of the potential for legal actions
Our work to develop a thorough chronology of events and mastery of the damages provides the leverage necessary to gain the attention of opposing parties (and their counsel) and pursue negotiations to settle the matter. It should be reassuring to know the Watkins Firm is able to resolve the vast majority of our failure to pay business disputes through effective, leveraged negotiation. This is the fastest and most cost-efficient method to resolve business disputes involving payment issues or breach of contract.
Listen to our Recent Sound Business Insights Podcasts:
Episode 11: Resolving Business Disputes
Episode 12: Resolving Business Disputes Part 2
Business Mediation and Arbitration
When negotiations cannot completely resolve every issue associated with a non-payment dispute, the next step usually involves filing a lawsuit by one of the parties. This opens the door to a settlement conference with the Judge, as well as business mediation. These legal venues are private, confidential settings designed to bring in a neutral expert on the matter at hand and resolve the case. The mediator is often a former Judge or a highly skilled expert who helps each party understand the strengths and weaknesses of their position, as well as potential ideas to move toward a settlement. The goal of business mediation is a settlement agreement that resolves the matter in whole or in part.
Many business contracts establish arbitration as an alternative to trial. Arbitration is a highly structured process designed to eliminate most unnecessary and non-essential legal maneuvering and motions and get straight to the matter so that it may be resolved in a matter of days. The arbitrator, selected by the parties, has the authority to establish the process to marshal all evidence and testimony and ultimately render a decision. In the vast majority of arbitrations, the decision of the arbiter is final and cannot be appealed. Arbitration is specifically designed to get to the core issues and resolve the matter.
Resolving Payment Disputes in San Diego and Throughout California
is All about Experience and Effectiveness
After more than four decades of experience resolving thousands of failure to pay business disputes and litigation in San Diego and throughout California, we can tell you that the key to resolution lies in experience and effectiveness. The skill of the Watkins Firm’s attorneys, and the depth of our business experience and expertise allows us to quickly get to the core of an issue, and effectively navigate through the issues of a dispute and the personalities involved to craft a solution that meets our client’s objectives. If you are involved in a contract or payment dispute, or business litigation we invite you to contact us or call for a free consultation at 858-535-1511. Expedient. Cost Efficient. Effective.
Call 858-535-1511 for a Free Consultation
As a business, we understand the importance of protecting your business throughout its lifetime, from formation to eventual sale or dissolution. We get to know your business and understand your goals and objectives so that we can provide the most effective combination of advice and services to help you reach them. We have worked with literally thousands of local and regional businesses and can help you to avoid business disputes and pitfalls, and prosperously grow your business. Contact us online or call 858-535-1511 to discuss your case with our knowledgeable business litigation lawyers in San Diego, California.
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Business Litigation Attorney Today
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San Diego business lawyers, call us at 858-535-1511 or contact us online.
Experience. Insight. Effective Legal Representation. Resolution
The Watkins Firm has over 40 years of successful trial experience in San Diego, throughout California, and across the country. Our success at trial provides strength to your side of the equation, and opposing parties and their counsel know we are prepared to represent you at every step in failure to pay business disputes.
What are your goals for the matter at hand? If you are involved in a business dispute involving a breach of contract or failure to pay scenario as an individual, business entity, investor, shareholder, owner, or member, the Watkins Firm is prepared to assert your rights and position while achieving a resolution that accomplishes your goals in the most timely and cost-efficient manner possible.
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.