Are you searching for the right business attorney for San Diego and California business owners? How can an experienced business and corporate lawyer with 40+ years of experience help a business professional to increase their own effectiveness and take their business to the next level?

How do professional athletes get better?  How do Olympic competitors increase their skill and levels of performance?  They hire a coach.  So where does a San Diego or California business owner, corporate executive or entrepreneur go to find an effective business coach?  What should you look for?

Think about the coaches in your own life.  What has made the difference between an effective coach, championships and those who were just “on the field?”  What qualities did you respect most, and what personality types helped you to achieve your best performances?  For most, the answers might include:

• Genuine experience –  “Been there, done that.”
• Ability to effectively teach and counsel, to transfer strategy and skills
• Energy, passion, encouragement, confidence and Insight
• Candor, straight forward honesty that identifies areas that would yield improved performance

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.  Our experienced attorneys have literally coached thousands of San Diego businesses through each stage of their formation, development, growth and ultimately mergers and acquisitions.  We don’t just understand business, we understand your business.  Chances are we’ve helped other clients in your industry and can bring that experience to bear to help you and your company to succeed and grow.  We have the experience and a proven track record as the firm you can count on as the right business attorney for San Diego and California business owners.

You will enjoy our work together, and we will help you to develop needed skills and insights.  We will help you to avoid the pitfalls that have slowed the progress of others (or put them out of business).  We help you to develop strategies to expand your opportunities, acquire new markets and a presence within them, and how to attract the personnel and capital to your company to fulfill your potential.  We bring the passion, encouragement and confidence of helping thousands of other businesses to survive and prosper.  Our clients appreciate our ability to help them to get to the core issues and our candid assessments and insights.

Pro-Tip: “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 talk about one year, five year, 10 year plans. We just try to get a feel for where they’re going, what their game plan is. And if they don’t have a game plan, we tell them how other companies have done it and give them a menu of things that they might want to think about. What most, especially entrepreneurs, younger entrepreneurs, don’t really value is the importance of getting the structure of the business, right. The business documents. And I’m specifically talking about the operating agreement or the shareholders agreement.

If you just take a bland form from the internet and try to create your own contract and you’re acting like your own lawyer, and if you’re going to invest a ton of money and then skimp on the planning, it’s like taking off on an airplane, not having a flight plan so I think it’s, as they say, it’s better to have a lawyer who provides you with a reasonable fee for services and a game plan than just doing it on your own. We advise starting companies all the time and then later on when they have trouble or they have success and they want to move to the next level, we have a client that we know all about. We have the background about, and we can help.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

Are you ready to take your business to the next level?  Are you searching for a the right business attorney for San Diego and California business owners who can help you to build a successful strategy, avoid setbacks, and attract the people and investment it will take to accomplish and exceed your own goals?  We invite you to review our podcast Episode 19 – Your Business Attorney is a Valuable Partner, 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 about the role of a business general counsel, and the experience that the Watkins Firm could bring to you and your company.