Ellen Pao Officially Found Liable For Roughly $276,000 In Court Fees From Kleiner Perkins

ellen-pao1 Ellen Pao not only lost on all counts of a high-profile sexual discrimination case earlier this year, but Judge Harold Kahn has officially ordered the interim Reddit CEO to pay more than a quarter of a million dollars in court costs to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers this morning. The ruling was consistent with a tentative order from Judge Kahn last night. Both parties met at the San… Read More

Ellen Pao Files Notice Of Appeal For KPCB Discrimination Case

ellen pao Reddit CEO and former venture capitalist Ellen Pao has filed a notice of appeal in her long-running gender discrimination case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, according to a filing submitted today to the Superior Court of California. The filing, which is dated June 1 and embedded here, simply indicates a notice of appeal, which is the very beginning of… Read More

Ellen Pao’s Statement On Losing The Kleiner Perkins Case: “The Battle Was Worth It”

ellen-pao1 Directly after the jury announced its final verdict in Ellen Pao Vs. Kleiner Perkins Caufield, in which it ruled against all four of Pao’s claims of gender discrimination and retaliation, Pao held a very short press conference at San Francisco’s Superior Court. Flanked by her lawyers Alan Exelrod and Therese Lawless, Pao read a short statement. Embedded above is video (amateur… Read More

The Jury Rules Against Pao On All Four Claims In Ellen Pao Vs. Kleiner Perkins

ellenpao-2015-03-25 Updated: After several days of deliberations, a San Francisco Superior Court jury has come to a conclusion in Ellen Pao Vs. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the gender discrimination trial that began with a lawsuit filed in May 2012 and has culminated this past month in a closely watched five-week-long courtroom trial. The jury has ruled “no” on all four claims Pao leveled… Read More

Thou Shalt Not Google

jurors-googling1 At every break during the high-profile Pao versus Kleiner Perkins trial these past couple of weeks, judge Harold Khan reminded the jurors, “Do not form or express any opinions about the case. Do not do any research. Do not read any news reports. Do not Google the case.”
It’s a pretty difficult ask, as the trial is one of the most mediated Silicon Valley has ever seen, with… Read More

Pao Vs. Kleiner Defense Rests Its Case, Showcasing A Different Side Of The Story

ellen pao Yesterday afternoon, the legal team representing venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers rested its case in the Ellen Pao Vs. Kleiner Perkins trial, bringing the fourth full week in the courtroom to a close. The end of the trial is now clearly in sight, with only the closing arguments and the jury deliberations remaining. Over the past several days, Kleiner’s head… Read More