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Yes. If you are a potential new client and Mr. Watts determines he may be able to assist you, Mr. Watts will provide an initial free telephonic or in-person consultation.

The most typical arrangement is an hourly fee, plus reimbursement of expenses (such as court and governmental filing fees), billed on a monthly basis. Mr. Watts may also offer flat fees for certain services or contingency fee arrangements for representation in certain cases. Mr. Watts also takes on certain work and cases pro bono.

A "trasactional" attorney performs transactional work, which refers to non-litigation aspects of the practice of law relating to business, money and commerce. Transactional work can include providing legal services to businesses and entrepreneurs (and other individuals) such as legal business entity formation, contract negotiation and drafting, corporate governance and compliance, real estate purchases, sales or leasing, and intellectual property acquisition and protection.

Yes. With respect to transactional work, Mr. Watts assists clients both in and outside San Diego and throughout California. Mr. Watts also assists businesses and individuals outside of California (or outside the United States) who do business or plan to do business in California. With respect to litigation, Mr. Watts can provide representation throughout California. However, for matters requiring frequent in-person appearances, Mr. Watts typically only takes on cases to be filed or pending in Southern California.

Yes. Small businesses may not have the volume of legal issues to justify the expense of hiring "in-house" (or "corporate") counsel (who would be an employee of the business working exclusively for the business). However, small businesses may find an "outside" general counsel arrangment suitable to their legal and budget needs. Outside general counsel can perform some of the more typical legal services that a small business may need (e.g., general business law advice, corporate governance, contract drafting and review, intellectual property acquisition and protection, etc.), can manage other legal matters that might arise and, where appropriate, can find and delegate particular legal issues to counsel who specialize in a particular area of law. Where such an arrangement makes sense, Mr. Watts provides clients with outside general counsel services.