Are you searching for the experienced and San Diego and California business attorney you need to get your project off the ground or take it to the next level?  The Watkins Firm provides a comprehensive offering of business formation, transaction, employer counsel and dispute resolution services making us an invaluable partner for any business owner or entrepreneur.

We have served the San Diego business community for four decades providing sound business counsel.  We guide business owners, executives, managers, members and shareholders through business formation, the challenges faced by a California employer, growth and expansion through merges or acquisitions, litigation and dispute resolution and ultimate the sale of your company or the dissolution of a business entity.

Where should you turn when you have questions about any aspect of your business?  Your experienced San Diego and California business attorney at the Watkins Firm is committed to the success of your company and the accomplishment of your goals and objectives.  We help you to avoid the challenges and pitfalls which have befallen companies similar to your own.  We help you to structure business transactions and relationships between your company and it’s employees, customers and suppliers.  We carefully craft the business contracts and documents necessary to guide those relationships and transactions to a successful and profitable conclusion.

When a challenge arises the Watkins Firm takes a unique approach designed to resolve disputes and litigation quickly and in a cost-efficient manner.  We resolve internal disputes between partners, members and shareholders as well as disputes between your company and other business entities.

We help San Diego employers to remain in full compliance with all federal, state and local laws and regulations, including the most recent Supreme Court decision regarding 1099 workers. We provide sound counsel on hiring, employment, disciplinary and termination strategies.  We help to establish the policies and procedures which protect your organization while ensuring a productive work environment.  We represent employers in hearings and conferences before state and federal agencies.

Pro-Tip: “If you’re a company owner and you are trying to do everything right in the best way you can for your company, you’re going to need an experienced business attorney to help advise and counsel you and the company. And that attorney or couple of attorneys or law firm will advise you on things that have to do with your business, being an employer, your field specifically, and in general. You’ll also need to have a banking relationship because opportunities come along and if you wait to go get your banking relationship started, you’re behind the eight ball. And also expenses happen. You need to have some kind of a flexibility there, some backup. And finally, and maybe most importantly, you’ll have some type of accountant who’s a professional. I’m not talking about if you’re still just using a CPA or your tax guy for your taxes. I’m talking about how do you define what is profit? How do you define it to match what you are doing to match tax deductions, to match zoning, to match licensing, to match future sales, your exit strategy, to match all those things. How do you get your accounting? What is actually important to you? What is a real profit to you that’s your professional accountant who you talk to on a monthly or quarterly basis?

I often think about the concept of a coach, Dan Olympic athletes and professional athletes, they’re the top of their game. They’re rich, they’re making money, they’re performing at the highest level, and yet they all have a coach. It’s the same idea here, but it’s a lot cheaper!  Professional athletic coaches make a lot of money. If you go get a corporate or company council and you say, I want you to form my company, or I want you to advise me on my corporate structure, they’re not going to charge you very much money (we often don’t at all). If they have experience, they’re going to look at your corporate structure, spend maybe a couple hours, maybe four hours max.

You’ll have somebody that now knows your business structure, knows your goals, knows what you’re trying to achieve, and can worry for you. They already know what to worry about. They’ve had a thousand clients just like you, go down that same road and seeing the horror stories and the successes, and they can tell you, ‘oh, I like what you’re doing here. Or Maybe you should watch for that.’ And you can pick up the phone and it costs you less than probably your cable bill per month. And you’ve got someone there who can give you advice that’ll save you tens of thousands of dollars or make you hundreds of thousands of dollars.

If we’re forming them, then we help them select the right kind of company with their goals in mind. Or if they’re merging or buying something else, or selling. They’re already in business or acquiring a company, but we give them advice on whether they should change or how to expand it or what they can and can’t do with their company. If they’re in the merger and acquisition stage, then it’s a whole different list of things we’re going to talk to them about and work them up, get them set and ready to go to do the best they can.

Because once our lawyers here get background on your company, know generally what your goals are and what you’re doing, then we’re ready for any kind of questions you may have. We don’t want to fix anything that’s not broken. We don’t want to go in there and say, ‘you need to do this. You’re doing this all wrong.’ No, if they’re making a profit, they’re doing it all right. And if there’s something they’re concerned about, we’ll help them address it. But any of the main issues, employment, business, commercial contracts, all those will lead us to general background. And that means they don’t have to teach us or pay us to learn their general background for any questions they have in the future. We’ll get that at the first consultation. We’ll know what’s going on. And so if they come back and say, ‘okay, you just handled my contracts or my lease or my independent contractor agreements, I got this other issue.’ We won’t have to say, ‘oh, I need a couple hours of your time to get to know what you do.’ We’ll know.  We help our clients stay on track, avoid disputes, resolve issues quickly, and make money.  That is what business is all about.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

The Watkins Firm has the experienced San Diego and California business attorney you’ll need to start your new venture or take the next step in your company’s growth.  We invite you to review our podcast Episode 38 – General Business Counsel as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today. Learn more about our comprehensive corporate and business services and how we can help you to reduce risk and improve operational success and profitability.