What is the value and benefit of experience?  Are you looking for proven, experienced San Diego business attorneys who have the breadth of experience and legal skill required to help with all of your business and legal issues?

Effective and efficient San Diego business attorneys require a unique blend of proven experience and a genuine, straight forward and practical nature which provides quick and accurate insight into any challenge.  The California business attorneys at the Watkins Firm have 40+ years of experience serving the business, science and tech, real estate and medical / healthcare communities here in San Diego and throughout California.  Draw on our experience of more than four decades serving companies of all sizes, vertical markets and corporate structure.  This experience allows us to quickly get to the core of any issue, challenge, dispute or opportunity and make a contribution to the success of your business.  Our clients value our responsive and practical style.  We work to get things done right while keeping overhead and unnecessary expense to a minimum.

We also serve as valued general business counsel for many San Diego businesses and corporate executives.  Every Olympic athlete has a coach.  You may be the best in the world at what you do, but you still need someone to coach you, to guide you through challenges and help you to reach the next step.  The Watkins Firm provides sound business counsel informed by decades of service to businesses like yours.  We are able to provide insight into your business and help to develop strategies which expand your company and increase profitability.

We help you to avoid the challenges and pitfalls which have befallen other businesses.  We work to structure your transactions, relationships and processes to ensure compliance with federal, state and local laws while positioning you for maximum success.  We work with you to negotiate strong contracts or to complete business mergers and acquisitions.  We help to protect the valuable corporate and intellectual property you have developed, while recommending opportunities to leverage these assets to reach new markets through distribution or licensing.

Pro-Tip: “We have of course, very knowledgeable attorneys, but we also have a higher percentage of support staff, paralegals, administrators in house, HR people so that when our clients have a basic question about employment practices and they don’t want to spend the high attorney rate, they can contact one of our administrators or one of our paralegals and ask a question, cost them a lot less money. And everybody here has been working on these cases for years and years. So the knowledge might not be at the fingertips of the employer, but we answer that same question every week for one of our clients.

After 35 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.When they 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’re proud to help their transactions to flow smoothly.

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 30+ years, 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

Draw on the deep skill and insight of a proven, experienced San Diego business attorney from the Watkins Firm.  It is our responsiveness and commitment to our client’s objectives which sustains relationships across the decades.  We invite you to review our podcast Episode 19 – Your Business Attorney is a Valuable Partner as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.