If you are looking for attorneys with a strong track record and the proven ability to resolve San Diego breach of contract cases efficiently in a cost-effective manner you need the Watkins Firm.  We take a unique approach to litigation and lawsuits which is designed to get to the core of the dispute, create a productive working atmosphere and accomplish our client’s objectives based upon skilled and leveraged negotiations.

The fact is most business litigation cases including breach of contract disputes are resolved by the Watkins Firm through leveraged, effective negotiation.  The time and expense required to get to Court are usually not in harmony with our clients short and long term goals.  The key to resolve San Diego breach of contract cases efficiently is to get the transaction or relationship back on track and find a “settlement” that preserves valuable underlying business relationships while achieving the “benefit of the bargain” for both parties.  There are many reasons why a party may not be able to fulfill the obligations of a business contract, usually based upon unforeseen circumstances.

The party who is the victim of the breach must take action to mitigate their losses if they wish to preserve the legal opportunity to recover associated damages in the case.  The experienced attorneys at the Watkins Firm guide our clients through the process.  We thoroughly document the chronology of events and gain a prompt and accurate assessment of the damages at stake and use these as leverage to gain the other party’s attention and draw them into productive negotiations.  Our effective and experienced litigation attorneys work to find common ground and resolve San Diego breach of contract cases in the shortest amount of time possible.  This keeps costs down for our clients while protecting their interests and ensuring that important goals and objectives are achieved.

When negotiations are unsuccessful and a lawsuit is filed, we represent our clients in settlement conferences, mediation, business arbitration and at trial.

Pro-Tip: “Knowing the facts, the damages, the law of the damages is the key, because that gives your lawyer the ability to predict what would happen if you went to trial tomorrow and you won, what would you win? That’s it, that’s the number. In civil court, we’re only talking about damages, dollar amounts, getting there and understanding human nature.

Preparation for my clients has to do with damages, the law and damages the facts, getting all the facts down in a thoroughly documented chronology of events. We cannot just go in there and say, ‘here’s the right number. Here’s what I’ll settle for. I’m done talking.’ That doesn’t work. It should. We believe we’re all intelligent people. And if we all are intelligent people, we should be able to look at the facts. If we agree on the facts, apply law and come up with the exact same number. Like it’s an accounting problem, but it doesn’t work that way. People are not wired that way.

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 that happen. 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.

So you go through the dance, you go through settlement offers, you come up with factual things to say, legally things to say 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.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

If you are concerned about resolving a business dispute we invite you to review our podcast Episode 11 – Resolving Business Disputes as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.