OK let's lay this out... a) how many $ could you bank if you successfully sued the firm for your black eye? b) how many $ would you lose on legal costs if you lost? What proportion of your net worth would that be? c) how many $ could the firm make if it successfully sued you for insubordination and losses associated with that insubordination? What probable % of your net worth would you incur? Talk to a lawyer and get probabilities, likley amounts and calculate an expectancy... assume that the likelihood of the firm suing you without you first suing it is nil... so the status quo (doing nothing) has an expectancy of $0... however, assume a 100% probability of the firm countersuiing you if you sued it... so the expectancy of you suing the firm is a probabilistically weighted conditional expectancy...