Are you searching for information on how to manage a business contract dispute in San Diego or anywhere in the State of California?  If you want to resolve any business dispute, you will require a strategy that ensures a prompt and cost-effective solution while protecting your goals and objectives.  The experienced business contract dispute attorneys at the Watkins Firm have more than four decades of experience helping business clients to resolve disputes and lawsuits efficiently.  Our unique approach to litigation and disputes ensures your matter is handled in a productive and successful manner to resolve the issues at hand in accordance with your goals and objectives.

Our attorneys work to quickly and thoroughly document the chronology of events and assess any financial damages associated with a business contract dispute.  These damages are the most important key in how to manage a business contract dispute and generate the leverage necessary to open constructive and productive negotiations.  The Watkins Firm is able to resolve the vast majority of our business contract dispute cases through effective, leveraged negotiation.  Negotiation is the fastest and least expensive path to resolve your business contract dispute.  We work to find common ground and negotiate a settlement or other modification which allows the parties to complete the transaction, service or relationship governed by the underlying contract.

When negotiations hit a snag based on a matter of genuine principal or obstinance in opposing parties or their counsel, we represent clients in mediation and/or arbitration.  Mediation is a cost-effective alternative to litigation in a court of law as it is usually much faster and cost-efficient.  A neutral third party (mediator) selected by the parties hears both sides of the dispute then works with the parties and their representatives to identify potential alternatives and options to resolve the issue(s) at hand.  The suggestions of the mediator are not binding, and the discussions and work product of the mediation itself remains private.

Arbitration is a much more structured environment, and reduces cost by driving the dispute to resolution through the binding ruling of an arbitrator.  Arbitration eliminates many of the legal motions and other costly aspects of litigation while ensuring the matter is brought to conclusion in a timely manner.  The Watkins Firm attorneys prepare every case as if it is going to trial, and this combined with our successful track record in past trials over decades here in San Diego provides incentive to the other party to work towards a solution.

Pro-Tip: “We’re going to listen. We’re going to listen as lawyers and we’re going to be interested and we’re going to care. What you say means more to us than you can imagine because it’s the key to us solving your litigation problem. You provide us with detailed information, things that are bothering you, upsetting you, all those things matter to us and we’re able to organize them in such a way that every piece of information you give us turns into ammunition we can use to defend you.

The next thing we’re going to do is we’re going to investigate. We’re going to provide more facts to you with investigation by reviewing documents, talking to witnesses, doing a little research. We’re going to investigate and find more evidence to support your case. We’re going to make sure that you are ready to go before they even know you’re ready to go. We’re going to treat you like a business owner. Meaning we’re no better than an auto mechanic. You come to see me, I look at your problem, I check your car out, I give you an estimate, tell you how long it’s going to take and what it’s going to cost. We do the same for your case. We look at your facts, we tell you the law and we tell you what it’s going to cost and we give you a real game plan and then you can decide if you want to hire us.

Once you hire us and we agree on a game plan or a budget that’s go get them time for us, you’re going to unleash us and we go do what we do and what we love doing, which is destroy the other side’s case. We will do everything we can to work with you. In fact, we’ll help you put your case in really good chronological order.  It’s like a looking glass. When you put a case in chronological order the way we do and present it back to the client, all of a sudden all of the issues that we see just come to light. And then the client sees the issues, you see the issues and they provide you with even more and more information that destroys these issues that the other side has to deal with. So the chronology, we make our chronology as strong as possible for our client.

A great chronology always destroys a weaker one. And so if you have the stronger chronology with stronger facts that are all backed up and they have a weaker chronology, well we take that and we strike first. We go out there and make them swear to God under penalty of perjury that their chronology is the truth. Even though we already know our chronology will destroy their chronology, we get them to say it so they can’t take it back.

This is the most enjoyable part of my job, I can give you lots of examples. I’ve literally been in trial and got somebody to answer questions in a way they thought the truth was and then they find out that we had documents, evidence, or witnesses that proves otherwise, that their little white lie or their little slight is not going to pass. And they’ll try to say, well, I changed my mind or that’s not actually true. And I can literally say in front of a judge and a jury, ‘So you’re testifying now under penalty of perjury. Are you lying now under penalty of perjury or were you lying seven months ago under penalty of perjury? Which penalty of perjury is honest and the truth and which is not?’ And the other attorney will object and most judges will say no, it’s a legitimate question. And immediately you’ve just proven them to be someone who lies under penalty of perjury, it destroys their case. And you can do that with these chronologies we prepare over and over and over again. We use your chronology to ask our questions hoping they will lie, or, shall we say, misremember the truth.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

If you are searching for a timely and cost-efficient strategies for resolving business contract disputes in San Diego we invite you to review our podcast Episode 31 – the ABC’s of What to Do if You are Sued as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.