What is it like to work with San Diego business attorneys with four decades of experience and proven success? The business attorneys at Watkins Firm have served the San Diego business and California healthcare community for more than 40 years. Our firm is focused on serving the needs of business professionals at every stage of a company’s life – from formation to the day it is sold or dissolved.
Key Takeaways about San Diego Business Attorneys With Four Decades of Experience:
- There is a lot we’ve learned working in and with the California business community for more than 38 years. It’s more than just a “been there, done that” perspective. It’s access to a business advisor who has helped companies just like yours from startup, through each growth phase, asset purchases, stock purchases, and every form of complex mergers and acquisitions transaction you can imagine.
- As experienced California and San Diego business attorneys with four decades of experience we can tell you California is, by far and without exception, the most challenging environment to be an employer.
“Been there, done that.” Proven Advice for Every Aspect of Your Company’s Journey
How can our business attorneys apply their almost four decades of business experience here in San Diego and throughout the State of California to help your business to startup, grow, and prosper? What happens when you are ready to acquire another company, or you want to buy the assets of another business?
We help entrepreneurs to select the best LLC or corporate entity to accomplish their business objectives. We are there to guide them as they acquire other businesses or seek investment partners to support the business through growth cycles. We counsel businesses who are struggling to survive, and protect their owners, members and shareholders through disputes with employees, customers, suppliers and other business litigation.
There is a lot we’ve learned working in and with the California business community for more than 38 years. It’s more than just a “been there, done that” perspective. It’s access to a business advisor who has helped companies just like yours from startup, through each growth phase, asset purchases, stock purchases, and every form of complex mergers and acquisitions transaction you can imagine.
Strong San Diego and California Employer Defense – In the Toughest State in the Union to Be an Employer
As experienced California and San Diego business attorneys with four decades of experience we can tell you California is, by far and without exception, the most challenging environment to be an employer. We provide sound counsel to San Diego employers in all aspects of federal, state and local labor laws. We help to develop sound corporate documents and internal documents such as employee handbooks and policies and procedures to reduce exposure to wage and hour disputes, PAGA litigation and other employment related litigation. We represent employers before federal and state agencies or the California Labor Board in hearings and settlement conferences.
Proprietary Library of Proven Contracts, Tailored to Your Specific Application
Why download forms or contracts from some online website? The Watkins Firm are San Diego business attorneys with four decades of experience in the development of business contracts, employment contracts and associated policies and handbooks. We maintain an updated proprietary library of proven contracts which can be efficiently and cost-effectively tailored to your specific application.
We advise medical practices and healthcare businesses, as well as high tech science and technology companies. We provide extensive complimentary initial consultations to discuss your business challenge or objective and provide recommended solutions and a solid budget before asking you to hire us.
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 almost 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. 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
San Diego Business Attorneys With Four Decades of Experience
What is like to partner and work with San Diego business attorneys with four decades of experience in California? Today’s business environment is fast paced and competitive. California is the most difficult state in which to be an employer. It is also one of the most litigious environments you can imagine.
You need an edge that will help you to establish your business, compete, protect yourself from exposure to disputes and litigation and ultimately thrive. We invite you to review our Podcast Episode Episode 10 – The Importance of a Strong Corporate 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.
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.
In December 2003, Dan commenced litigation against Health South Surgery Centers-West, Inc and its’ subsidiaries, exposing the company’s extensive mismanagement and misconduct of its’ surgery centers. Dan has also been asked by some of California’s largest municipalities and corporations to conduct legally required investigations into matters involving alleged employment discrimination and harassment.
