Mitigate the damages and resolve a breach of contract in a business dispute quickly and cost-effectively with the proven legal skill and extensive experience of the Watkins Firm.  Our business dispute and breach of contract attorneys take a unique approach to breach of contract disputes which is specifically designed to accomplish our client’s goals and objectives in a cost-efficient and timely manner.  One of the first concerns in a breach of contract case should be mitigating the damages if you are the victim of the contract breach.  The law requires you to take prudent, timely action to reduce the impact of the breach upon your business and mitigate the damages as much as possible.  The failure to do so may prevent you from being able to recover your losses down the road.

Why do you need to both mitigate the damages and resolve a breach of contract? The failure to mitigate the damages is one of the best and most effective defenses in a breach of contract case.  The Watkins Firm has represented San Diego business owners and companies in business litigation and contract disputes for over four decades.  We provide sound counsel informed by the countless breach of contract cases we’ve encountered across those years.  Once we have gained an accurate understanding of and quantification of the associated damages we have the leverage required to gain the attention of the other party in your dispute, and drive them to the negotiating table.  The majority of business disputes and breach of contract cases in particular are resolved through effective, leveraged negotiation.

Pro-Tip: “first, 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 keys 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.

The next step is 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.

In the litigation game, 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.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

The best strategy in any contract dispute is to mitigate the damages and resolve a breach of contract in a timely and cost-effective manner.  If you are concerned about missed deadlines or have received indirect or direct implications of a breach of contract you need to act quickly to preserve your legal options and to maximize the opportunity for a successful outcome.

We invite you to review our podcast Episode 5 – Breach of Contract as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.