Clients of the Watkins Firm appreciate and value our approach to business disputes in San Diego and the prompt, cost-effective manner with which we resolve them.  When a business dispute arises, whether it is a dispute between co-owners or members in an LLC, a shareholder dispute, or a business to business confrontation the fastest and least expensive strategy to resolve the dispute is leveraged negotiation.  Our attorneys step in quickly to assess what has happened, and identify all potential damages associated with the dispute.  Damages are the key to any business dispute, and provide the leverage necessary to gain the other party’s attention and commitment to resolution.

The Watkins Firm has more than four decades of experience resolving business disputes quickly and efficiently on behalf of our clients.  Our unique approach to business disputes in San Diego helps us to resolve the vast majority of these cases through leveraged negotiation.  However, there are times where it is important to protect your business interests, intellectual property or eliminate contingent liabilities and the only remedy may be to take your case to trial.  The attorneys at the Watkins Firm are uniquely positioned to manage your dispute through every step of this process.  Our approach to business disputes in San Diego and negotiation tactics have proven successful over decades of service to the San Diego business community.

It might surprise you to learn the Watkins Firm is able to resolve the vast majority of our business dispute cases through effective, leveraged negotiation.  This is the fastest, and least expensive path to accomplish our client’s goals and objectives.  Your Watkins Firm attorney works to construct a thorough, well-documented chronology of events and a mastery of the potential damages associated with the dispute at hand.  These tools provide the leverage to draw opposing parties into negotiation and drive the situation toward a successful settlement.

When there are principled areas of disagreement, mediation can be a cost-effective and timely option.  We represent your interests before the neutral mediator, who works with both parties to clarify issues of dispute, find common ground and develop options for resolving issues of disagreement.  Arbitration is a much more structured environment, presided over by an agreed upon arbitrator or arbiter.  We provide briefs to the neutral, assist with the presentation of facts and the testimony of witnesses and work to achieve the best possible outcome for our clients.

When necessary, we take our client’s cases to trial and our track record of success speaks for itself.  We work from the outset to understand our client’s goals and objectives, and work constructively to achieve them quickly and efficiently.  Clients appreciate our approach to business disputes in San Diego and the successful outcomes we achieve.

Pro-Tip: “It’s a dance. The University of Irvine has a law school program that teaches judges how to help people negotiate settlements. They have a long seminar and it talks about perception. And so I’m not a judge, so I didn’t get to go there. But I’ve spoken to many, many judges over the last 35 years and they’ve discussed about how they’re trained. And then they discussed about how many different moves it has to take for both parties to feel that they did as good as they possibly they could have done. And it won’t happen in one offer. I’ve never had it happen. 35 years. Never had someone say I’ll do it for this amount. And the other person says, sounds fair to me. They wouldn’t be coming to a lawyer. right. So you go through the dance to get to the settlement offers. We work to come up with fact–based alternatives in between those offers. And then at the end of the day with an experienced judge or settlement conference referee you’ll end up with a settlement. That’ll be the number, the right number where both parties are a little upset, both parties, a little happy and everybody saved attorney’s fees and anguish and time in court.

In a business dispute usually its really clear who broke the agreement. However, businesses operate on a longitudinal graph of time. So if you just analyze this person broke this agreement with me today and don’t analyze what the value of the overall investment is, right then you’re not really doing yourself any good. You’re just being too focused on one little breach. When you could focus on that breach, balanced against how much profit I made over the years, balanced against my total investment balanced against, you know, do I want to continue on all those factors, which believe it or not we have experts for, they can put it in a number if we have to go to trial, but we can also talk intelligently with our clients about, okay, let’s put some numbers and value on this. And so that we’re not thinking too narrowly in a small box, we’re thinking outside the box and we know what we’re talking about. And what’s good for us as a business decision and as a legal decision.”

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.