Are you searching for an experienced business dispute resolution attorney to help with resolving a partnership dispute in San Diego or anywhere in the State of California? There are many reasons why LLC’s and small businesses fail, and one of the primary reasons is a partnership dispute between the partners, members, or shareholders who own the company. Resolving a partnership dispute helps to build stronger relationships, and preserves the integrity and financial strength of the company so that your business is able to survive and grow.
Key Takeaways about Resolving a Partnership Dispute in San Diego or Anywhere in California:
- There are many reasons why LLC’s and small businesses fail, and one of the primary reasons is a partnership dispute between the partners, members, or shareholders who own the company.
- The most common reason for a dispute between business partners is money, but they can also involve the direction of the company, hiring or firing an employee, commingling, how to use assets and corporate funds, or even who is doing the most work.
- Look for attorneys with extensive experience, and a proven track record representing clients in negotiations, filing or defending a lawsuit, settlement conferences, mediation, arbitration, and at trial.
Balancing Personalities and Business Realities
Entrepreneurial personalities are creative, risk taking, confident and energetic by nature. The confidence that underlies any entrepreneur can also drive strong opinions and these ingredients are often the source of many conflicts between partners or co-owners in a closely-held company or small business.
The experienced partnership dispute resolution attorneys at the Watkins Firm get it – You simply disagree. The most common reason for a dispute between business partners is money, pure and simple. These disputes can also involve the direction of the company, commingling of funds or assets, hiring or firing an employee, how to use assets and corporate funds, or even who is doing the most work. Running a successful business, especially a start-up is one of the most difficult challenges in life. It is no wonder that disagreements develop and partnerships built upon deep friendships find themselves in a seemingly unsolvable dispute. Resolve your partnership dispute in San Diego and turn to our Watkins Firm attorneys with more than 40 years of experience in these types of cases.
Experience and Skill are the Keys to Resolving a Partnership Dispute in San Diego or California
There is often much more between the parties than a simple business partnership. Often resolving a partnership dispute in San Diego, or anywhere in the State of California involves the experience and skill to work through relationship issues with family members, close friends and important business partners. It is often not simply a matter of resolving the specific dispute at hand, in some cases we need to help to mend the fences between the parties.
The proven business dispute attorneys at the Watkins Firm have been helping partners to resolve disputes and disagreements for more than four decades. We have good news:
Resolving a partnership dispute is absolutely possible, regardless of how deep or unsolvable the problem may seem.
Here’s another insight that might surprise you:
The Watkins Firm is able to resolve the vast majority of our partnership dispute cases through effective, leveraged negotiation! This is the fastest, and least expensive manner in which to resolve any dispute between business owners or partners. We represent clients in negotiations, filing or defending a lawsuit, settlement conferences, mediation, arbitration, and at trial.
Pro-Tip: “Talk to a good lawyer right away, who is experienced at getting partnership disputes resolved. For example, we had a case a long time ago, nine or 10 doctors were working together in our medical practice. And our two or three doctors were worried about something. They came to us and over that weekend, the managing members of the medical corporation took the entire practice, moved. It changed its phone number, location, changed it, mailing address and took all the money and assets and bank accounts. Wow. Didn’t even tell where the other partners, where they were going. They showed up for work on Monday and there was no more work. The practice had disappeared overnight down the street to a different facility with instructions to keep them out. Unbelievable. So knowing something might be going on is the time to come to your lawyer so that we can do things to a discover, whether there’s really something going on and B there are remedies in the law that can stop that.
We want to get the facts down and we want the evidence they have in chronological order, because that’s the best way to communicate to the other party, to a third party, to anyone is in chronological order. That’s how we think. Then I want to help our clients analyze the damages. Whether you are feeling like they owe you something, they’re not complying with the agreement or vice versa. So I want something more from you than just to analyze the damages, we need to analyze what it’s going to cost to fight. And also look at the future business. Whether we can salvage this relationship, all of those important things should come into play, so that we are able to give good advice. Sometimes we’ll even advise our clients how we would think about it and then let them go talk to their partner or whoever they’re dealing with on their own armed with our knowledge and our negotiation technique.
We might actually coach them a little bit. So they’re ready for the conversation. They are married to the dispute. So they’re married to every little fact. And if they have any kind of good business skills, we can coach them give them the law in layman’s terms so that when they negotiate, they’re negotiating with the knowledge of what we would say and even more facts. So they can actually be better than us. We give them all the law strategies what’s going to happen if this happens.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner
Our clients value our unique approach to resolving a partnership dispute. We focus on accomplishing your goals in the fastest possible time frame and in the most cost-effective manner possible. If you need help to resolve your partnership dispute in San Diego and Southern California and are looking for an attorney who will actually help to solve the problem instead of dumping gasoline on the fire 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.
Meet Daniel Watkins:
Daniel W. Watkins is a true people person who sincerely listens. He cares deeply about what others are going through. Dan enjoys digging into the facts and finding creative solutions to problems. He contributes his insights candidly and constructively.
Dan’s interest in people make him deeply invested in every relationship and his exuberant personality makes him a true litigator. Dan fights for his clients with a fierce and calculated commitment.
Dan has practiced in the areas of business, medical practices and healthcare business, high tech/science, real estate and employment defense law since 1987. He is a trusted litigation strategist and true trial attorney with over 50 jury and bench trials to his credit. Dan has successfully represented both large companies and individuals and achieved substantial victories in well-publicized trials throughout California and the U.S.
He is experienced in business and corporate formation and administration, as well as all forms of alternative dispute resolution, including binding arbitration and mediation.
THE ROAD TO BECOMING A BUSINESS LAWYER AND LITIGATOR
Dan has almost 40 years of experience working with, for and against some of the largest insurance companies in the country. He has successfully tried and litigated cases in the areas of Healthcare Compliance, Commercial Litigation, Unfair Business Practices, Fraud, Breach of Contract, Battery, Premises Liability, Product Defect, Medical Malpractice, Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Construction Defect, as well as Unfair Competition, Defamation, and Trade Secrets.
