Are you worried about supply chain delays or delivery issues in California? Are you involved in a business dispute or lawsuit regarding issues with a supplier or your relationship with a customer? Supply contracts are crucial to many California businesses.  Well crafted supply contracts help to efficiently manage the successful relationship between your company and those businesses who supply goods and services to your organization.  Suppliers should seek the advice and counsel of the Watkins Firm’s business and supply contract attorneys.  The Watkins Firm has more than 40 years of experience serving the business, corporate, medical, healthcare, science and high tech, and real estate communities here in San Diego and throughout California.

Many San Diego businesses experience challenges dealing with their suppliers and vendors.  If your company builds a product or integrates technology, sub-assemblies or other supplies and components into your final product you require precision relationships throughout the supply channel to maximize production and associated profitability.  Contracts with suppliers and vendors can be quite complex, and each contract must clearly position your company to be able to complete successful business transactions, as well as hold those vendors who do not perform accountable.

The Watkins Firm understands that supply contracts are crucial to many San Diego businesses and work to develop supply agreements which support and improve business operations and profitability.  We carefully craft supply contracts and agreements with business vendors to ensure smooth transactions and timely performance by those who provide goods and services to your company.  We anticipate every foreseeable contingency to reduce the likelihood of disagreements, disputes or business litigation.  Our experienced contract attorneys incorporate proven strategies which quickly identify potential challenges while providing a timely and cost-effective process for resolution.

Disputes over Supply Chain Delays or Delivery Issues

Are you worried about substantial contract or payment issues associated with a supplier? The Watkins Firm has more than 40 years of experience resolving lawsuits and disputes over supply chain delays or delivery issues.  You will be pleased to learn the Watkins Firm is able to resolve the vast majority of our supply chain delays or delivery issues through effective, leveraged negotiation.  This is the fastest and least expensive path to manage a supply chain related dispute.

Once a lawsuit has been filed, we represent our clients in every step of the process.  The first steps usually involve a settlement conference or business mediation.  These are productive legal venues that keep your financial and business information out of the public record while moving the issue toward resolution.  Your Watkins Firm attorney protects your goals and interests while working to efficiently resolve the matter.

Many supply contracts specify arbitration as an alternative to trial.  Arbitration is a timely and cost-effective option when compared to the long time frames associated with trial in our Courts.  However, you only have one shot in arbitration.  The process moves quickly as the arbitrator has the power to establish the process for the arbitration itself, marshal evidence and testimony and ultimately issue a final “award” or decision that cannot be appealed.  This is why it is important to work with an experienced, proven supply dispute attorney at the Watkins Firm.

We can put your worries to rest, and replace them with the confidence that your matter is in the hands of a proven, successful and knowledgeable legal team.  Supply contracts are crucial to many San Diego businesses in this fast-paced and competitive marketplace.  They secure important relationships while ensuring prompt and timely delivery at the lowest possible cost.  Supply-related disputes affect every aspect of a business.  It is important to resolve them quickly and efficiently while protecting your goals and interests.

Pro-Tip: “Knowing the facts, the damages, the law of the damages key, because that gives you the ability to, and your lawyer to predict what would happen if you went to trial tomorrow and you won, what would you win? That’s it, that’s the number. In civil court, we’re only looking about dollar amounts now getting there and understanding human nature.  Preparation for my clients has to go with damages, the law, the facts, getting all the facts down so that we have things to say and then informing my client. We cannot just go in there and say, here’s the right number. Here’s what I’ll settle for. I’m done talking. 

That doesn’t work. It should. Okay. We believe we’re all intelligent people. And if we all are intelligent people, we should be able to look at the facts. If we agree on the facts, apply law and come up with the exact same number. Like it’s an accounting problem, but it doesn’t work that way. People are not wired that way.

In a business dispute usually its really clear who broke the agreement. However, businesses operate on a longitudinal graph of time. So if you just analyze this person broke this agreement with me today and don’t analyze what the value of the overall investment is, right then you’re not really doing yourself anything good. You’re just being too focused on one little breach. When you could focus on that breach, balanced against how much profit I made over the years, balanced against my total investment balanced against, you know, do I want to continue on all those factors, which believe it or not we have experts for, they can put it in a number if we have to go to trial, but we can also talk intelligently with our clients about, okay, let’s put some numbers and value on this. And so that we’re not thinking too narrowly in a small box, we’re thinking outside the box and we know what we’re talking about. And what’s good for us as a business decision and as a legal decision.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

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.