Given the risks and costs of going to trial over a dispute, Gunster attorney David Bates often advises clients to avoid litigation if possible.
That may be easy to say after litigation has already begun. But it’s not difficult to take some fairly simple steps ahead of time to stack the odds in your favor that you won’t be slapped with a lawsuit down the road.
In his most recent article published by The Business Journals, Bates lists 19 ways in which business owners can help protect themselves and their businesses from future litigation. These tips range from the intuitive all-agreements-should-be-in-writing, to the less obvious but critical advice of getting feedback from trusted and impartial persons about the dispute itself. The latter is important exactly because it’s contrary to the oh-so-human tendency to look for reinforcement of our position when in the middle of a conflict instead of seeking hard truths about something we’re often too close to, and too emotional about.
Read the complete article, Here’s how entrepreneurs can (and should) avoid litigation (The Business Journals, 8/28/14)
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