Are you searching for a proven business attorney in San Diego with decades of experience and strong recommendations from former and existing clients? 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 across California.

Why should you consider the assistance of our proven attorneys for successful business transactions in San Diego?  What services do our clients value and how can we improve the success and profitability of your company?  The foundation of all business lies in well executed strategy, the completion of successful business transactions and strong vendor and client relationships.  Generally speaking, the business contract associated with any business transaction or relationship is the primary key to ensuring business success.

After more than four decades of service to the California business community, your proven business attorney in San Diego at the Watkins Firm can tell you the primary source of profitable transactions and solid growth, as well as business disputes and ultimately business litigation lies in the quality of the contractual agreement associated with the transaction or relationship.  Unfortunately, many new or inexperienced business owners attempt to create their own contracts.  Others use contracts from a previous work experience, attempting to modify them to fit the present circumstances.  Still others turn to downloads from business forms sites which claim to save your company a substantial amount of money.

Your proven California business attorney at the Watkins Firm provides insight and sound counsel at every step in the process.  Good business transactions are rooted in  a well crafted business contract.  The Watkins Firm have developed a proprietary, battle-tested library of business contracts for virtually every application your company will require.  We don’t create contracts from scratch.  Our business attorneys carefully tailor an existing contract from our library to help your specific and unique transactions to succeed, while reducing the likelihood of any dispute.  A strong business contract should capture the entire agreement between the parties, comprehensively define the roles of each party and the expectations associated with the “benefit of the bargain.”  We work to identify all foreseeable issues which might arise and prescribe a solution for these challenges in advance as part of the agreement.  A sound business contract should also clearly define when work or a relationship is completed and how and when payment is to be exchanged.

Poorly constructed contracts leave too much room for vague interpretations by the parties.  Simply stated, these crucial gaps lead directly to disputes and ultimately litigation.  Many download forms claim to be designed for California.  However, California has some of the most comprehensive, complex and ever-changing business and commercial laws in the nation.  Most downloaded contracts to not provide adequate protections or provide important clauses required under California law.

If you are a California employer you will need the advice, support and services of the Watkins Firm.  Need the right answer to an HR-related question?  Pick up the phone and call our in-house HR group or speak with one of our attorneys for a free consultation.  We can help you to determine if the actions or words of an employee are nothing to worry about, or if there may be a genuine reason for concern.  If a challenge develops, we work with our employer clients to take quick action to remediate the issue(s) at hand, while preventing disputes and exposure to wage and hour litigation or a PAGA action.

Your proven business attorney in San Diego at the Watkins Firm can assist with any business requirement from start-up and entity and formation, through mergers and acquisitions, licensing and distribution agreements, Intellectual Property (IP) and trade secret strategies, governance and compliance or disputes and lawsuits.

Pro-Tip: “After 40 years of doing this and after thousands of different companies, a lawyer tends to know more about how to run a business than most people would expect. We go to college for seven years, but we learned our whole career from other people’s mistakes and other people’s successes. And so the three core things that I’ve come away with is if you’re going to have a business, you should have an experienced business attorney. You should have a banker (source of finances) and you should have a CPA. Most people are kind of clueless about what a CPA does. It’s not so much about accounting or taxes, but for advising you on how to be profitable.

When our clients come in, they tell us the story and we ask them questions about what kind of business this is going to be – we want to know from a lawyer’s perspective. Is this a high risk business? Is this a trending business? Is this a highly regulated business, those kind of things. So we can advise. And then we ask about other things and what they’re doing and just to get a gauge on how sophisticated they are or how unsophisticated they are so we can help.

We’ve had clients for decades. And when our clients do well, our attorneys feel like they’re doing well outside of whether they’re getting paid a whole bunch of money or not or fees or anything. We have long term clients. And our attorneys really feel good when things turn out for them because on the litigation side, they go through stress and we go through stress. And when we resolve a dispute and our clients are happy, we’re happy.

And we’ve helped to structure successful, profitable transactions. Our clients have owned their company for years and years and years, and they want to sell it. They believe they have a good deal on the table and we want to do everything we can to make sure that goes smoothly. And our client gets all of their benefits of the bargain, everything they wanted. We want to do our best to make sure they get that. And if it happens and they’re happy, then we are proud. We’re very proud and we’re happy for them. So this combined knowing someone for decades, their highs and lows, their difficult times, their good times, you can imagine, you really feel a bond for your clients.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

We invite you to review our podcast Episode 19 – The Value of an Experienced Business Attorney as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.  Learn more about how a proven business attorney in San Diego from the Watkins Firm can help advise and counsel your company, and achieve tremendous growth through successful business transactions here in California, and around the world, while improving your company’s success and resulting profitability.