Kleiner Perkins seeks legal fees or dropped case from Ellen Pao

<i>Other court filings revealed that last November, Kleiner had offered Ms. Pao $964,502 to settle, an amount based on the projected costs of the case.</i><p>That she didn&#x27;t accept the settlement says a lot for her belief in the case (or, at the very least, her odds of winning).

I don&#x27;t understand all the defending of Pao on HN. She was pretty clearly in the wrong and there is not much evidence to the contrary. It&#x27;s counter-productive to the cause of gender equality to continue to defend her.

&gt; “If Kleiner wanted to look classy, it could have said, ‘This was hard fought and we obviously disagree with your view, but it’s in the interest of all parties to walk away. In the meantime, there have been lessons learned and we are going to fund organizations that focus on glass ceiling issues,’ ” Ms. Katz said.<p>Here in non-fantasy land, why would anyone do as Ms. Katz suggests?

&gt;“If Kleiner wanted to look classy, it could have said, ‘This was hard fought and we obviously disagree with your view, but it’s in the interest of all parties to walk away. In the meantime, there have been lessons learned and we are going to fund organizations that focus on glass ceiling issues,’ ” Ms. Katz said.<p>Just donate to my rainbow coalition...

Revenge: a dish best not served at all.

I think it&#x27;s important that a precedent is set. Pao was being marginally more creative than patent trolls. The legal system needs to demonstrate that making a joke of discrimination, from <i>both</i> sides of the coin (by participating in it, or by crying wolf), will <i>not</i> be tolerated.<p>There are millions of people facing real discrimination issues and Pao made a joke of them all by trying to turn their struggle into her profit.

I think the title is a bit misleading. Kleiner Perkins is asking Ellen to pay for its legal fees or simply &quot; if she forgoes any appeal and lets the case die, the firm will forgive and forget, or at least move on.&quot;

Good for Kleiner. It seems their reputation was being dragged through the mud on a merit-less case of &quot;she said they said&quot;. No factual evidence was presented justifying Pao&#x27;s viewpoints.<p>Before you downvote, please provide factual evidence and I will gladly update this comment.

So Kleiner spent $972,815 on their defense. That is absurd amount of money, and I am sure Ellen Pao did not have those kind of funds. That also made it hard for her to win this case