Are you searching for information on how to effectively resolve business litigation in San Diego or anywhere in California?  The present backlog in San Diego’s Superior Court can offer serious challenges for businesses and corporations who are involved in a dispute or business litigation.  The path to trial can involve substantial risk, time and expense.  Is there a better strategy?

The experienced San Diego business litigation attorneys at the Watkins Firm have more than 40 years of experience in business disputes and lawsuits.  We work to clearly understand our client’s needs, as well as the issues at hand.  Our clients establish the objectives.  Our job is usually to accomplish those objectives in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of expense or exposure possible.  How is this possible?

There are effective alternatives to litigation.  In order to effectively resolve business litigation in San Diego or throughout California it is important to begin with a thorough, well-documented chronology of events, as well as a mastery of potential damages.  With these tools your Watkins Firm business dispute attorney can draw opposing parties and their counsel into effective, leveraged negotiation.  The Watkins Firm is able to resolve the vast majority of our business disputes and lawsuits through effective, leveraged negotiation.  This is the fastest, and most cost-efficient way to protect our client’s goals and objectives while resolving the dispute at hand.

If a lawsuit is filed, the next step is usually a settlement conference, and/or business mediation. These legal venues are private and confidential, keeping your business and financial information out of the public record while working to resolve part or all of the matter at hand.

Many business-to-business disputes select to resolve their issues through arbitration.  Arbitration is much faster and less expensive than a trial, and ensures the matter will be brought to a close.  The parties select an experienced arbitrator who has the authority to establish the short process of the arbitration, marshal evidence and testimony, and ultimately render a binding decision that resolves the matter.

Pro-Tip: “If we aren’t able to resolve every issue through effective, leveraged negotiation, the next step is a settlement conference or a business mediation. You bring in s former superior court Judge, and the Judge is going to have some effective controls to prevent the parties from over-valuing this dispute and from over-posturing, just being aggressive for the sake of being aggressive.

And this Judge is going to go back and forth with the purpose of settlement on his mind, which is what both parties want. And a lot of times here’s the thing why don’t settle: I’d say 50% of our cases don’t settle at mediation, but after a good mediation a month or two later, it’ll settle because of the mediation. Some mediators actually call us a month after when we came so close and say, ‘Dan, what can I do? Do you want me to call the other side?’ I’ll say ‘yeah, good idea. Call the other side.’

And then he’ll call the other side. And they’ll their clients have calmed down, they’re relaxed and we’ll settle. We have to get to that agreement somehow. So there’s a lot of different ways to effectively resolve business litigation here in San Diego, and across the State of California. Understanding and applying these strategies gives you the best result in 95% of the cases, which is how they resolve.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

When you hire the business litigation team at the Watkins Firm, you know we are not like most expensive, large law firms.  We aren’t here to pad the bill and spread it across a large group of people from senior partners to junior attorneys and staff like those larger firms do.  We are proven.  Experienced. Efficient.

If you are involved in business litigation or a business dispute seeking information on how to effectively resolve business litigation in San Diego or throughout California, we invite you to review our podcast Episode 12 – Resolving Business Disputes Part 2 as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.