The key to managing business litigation in California is rooted in resolving disputes and eliminating contingent liability.  Generally, a business dispute means one thing to our clients: money.  Therefore, the effective resolution of all corporate lawsuits, labor issues, breach of contract matters and shareholder disputes translates to one thing for our clients: profit.

The first step when resolving disputes and eliminating contingent liability in a business dispute is to gain a comprehensive understanding of our client’s specific goals relating to that matter.  What is the outcome they wish to achieve?  What are the critical timeframes at the core of the dispute?  What alternatives are available to remedy the situation and avoid expensive and time-consuming litigation?  When do we hold firm and aggressively pursue our client’s position in court?

There is a contingent cost to all open litigation and corporate disputes.  This ties up important working capital and resources and distracts ownership from the principal business objectives at hand.  Our attorneys have decades of experience resolving litigation and legal disputes here in San Diego.  We are effective advocates on behalf of our clients, and work to negotiate a resolution that advances their business goals.

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.  We are able to resolve the vast majority of our business dispute cases through effective, leveraged negotiation.  This is the fastest, least expensive way to resolve any business-related dispute, while often preserving important business relationships.

We thoroughly document the chronology of events and any damages associated with the dispute.  When you clearly understand the genuine extent of the “damages” at the core of the issue, you are in a position of strength to effectively achieve a positive outcome.  Our experienced business dispute attorneys use these to gain the attention of the other parties, while applying leveraged, effective negotiations to resolve the matter at hand and reach an appropriate settlement that accomplishes our client’s goals and objectives.

Pro-Tip: “We listen to our clients, listen to what’s going on, what’s led up to the dispute.  The next step is usually to investigate. We’re going to provide more facts to you with investigation by reviewing documents, talking to witnesses, doing a little research. We’re going to investigate and find more evidence to support your case.

The next step is to treat you like a business owner. Meaning, if I’m a mechanic, you come to see me, I look at your problem, I check your car out, I give you an estimate, tell you how long it’s going to take and what it’s going to cost. We do the same for your case. We look at your facts, we tell you the law and we tell you what it’s going to cost and we give you a real game plan and then you can decide if you want to hire us.

Once you hire us and we agree on a game plan or a budget that’s go get them time for us, you’re going to unleash us and we go do what we do and what we love doing, which is destroy the other side’s case. We will do everything we can to work with you. In fact, we’ll help you put your case in really good chronological order. It’s like a looking glass. When you put a case in chronological order the way we do and present it back to the client, all of a sudden all of the issues that we see just come to light. And then the client sees the issues, you see the issues and they provide you with even more and more information that destroys these issues that the other side has to deal with. So the chronology, we make our chronology as strong as possible for our client.

Once we have the chronology established and we’ve gone through it with a client and you’ve had those aha moments, what’s the next step in the process? In the litigation game, a great chronology always destroys a weaker one. And so if you have the stronger chronology with stronger facts that are all backed up and they have a weaker chronology, well we take that and we strike first. We go out there and make them swear to God under penalty of perjury that their chronology is the truth. Even though we already know our chronology will destroy their chronology, we get them to say it so they can’t take it back.

Knowledge, legal skill, decades of experience, documented facts and chronology, and a mastery of the damages are the tools to bring the discussion to a point and resolve it while protecting and and accomplishing our client’s goals and objectives.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

If your company is involved in a breach of contract or other business litigation and you’re looking for a legal partner with extensive experience resolving disputes and eliminating contingent liability we invite you to review our podcast Episode 31 – What to Do If You Are Sued as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.