You're striving to operate as efficiently as possible to increase your company's competitive advantage and, ultimately, its profit margin. But then someone in the company steps on a legal landmine and you spend $50,000 to win a lawsuit. If you settle or lose, you could spend $150,000 or more, and all of the margin you worked so hard to gain is gone. You can take steps to prevent this scenario. Here are ten of them we've gleaned from defending employers in employment disputes: