Judge cuts by three-quarters what Ellen Pao must pay former employer, Ellen Pao could get socked for $276,000 in legitimate expenses acquired by Kleiner Perkins, the funding firm she unsuccessfully sued for sex segregation, as per a preparatory governing for the situation.
Pao, who is presently the interval CEO of Reddit, had pursued a three-year fight in court in which she charged the Silicon Valley investment firm with sex separation for not advancing her and inevitably terminating her. She was looking for up to $16 million in lost wages, and the jury could have recompensed as much as $100 million on the off chance that it discovered Kleiner Perkins had acted with malevolence.
Yet, in March a jury chose in Kleiner Perkins' support. Kleiner Perkins then documented to have Pao pay about $1 million in legitimate expenses to remunerate it for costs acquired after it had offered Pao $1 million to settle the case.
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn downsized a great part of the expenses, basically the $865,000 Kleiner Perkins paid to contract specialists for the situation. Be that as it may, his movement, which is because of be contended in a court listening to Thursday, grants Kleiner Perkins about $276,000 in lawful expenses.
Kahn confirmed that Kleiner Perkins' $1 million offer to settle the case was in compliance with common decency and not a token or ostensible offer, as Pao's filings had contended, and along these lines the firm was qualified for recoup some of its expenses. Be that as it may, he said honoring the about $1 million in expenses that Kleiner Perkins was looking for would be excessively awesome a money related weight on Pao, regardless of the fact that she has impressive monetary assets she could call her own.
As per prior filings for the situation by Kleiner Perkins, Pao kept running up her own lawful costs of $2.7 million and that she offered to drop her allure of the jury's decision if Kleiner Perkins repaid her for those expenses. Kleiner Perkins has declined to pay her to drop her allure, it said.
Pao, who is presently the interval CEO of Reddit, had pursued a three-year fight in court in which she charged the Silicon Valley investment firm with sex separation for not advancing her and inevitably terminating her. She was looking for up to $16 million in lost wages, and the jury could have recompensed as much as $100 million on the off chance that it discovered Kleiner Perkins had acted with malevolence.
Yet, in March a jury chose in Kleiner Perkins' support. Kleiner Perkins then documented to have Pao pay about $1 million in legitimate expenses to remunerate it for costs acquired after it had offered Pao $1 million to settle the case.
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn downsized a great part of the expenses, basically the $865,000 Kleiner Perkins paid to contract specialists for the situation. Be that as it may, his movement, which is because of be contended in a court listening to Thursday, grants Kleiner Perkins about $276,000 in lawful expenses.
Kahn confirmed that Kleiner Perkins' $1 million offer to settle the case was in compliance with common decency and not a token or ostensible offer, as Pao's filings had contended, and along these lines the firm was qualified for recoup some of its expenses. Be that as it may, he said honoring the about $1 million in expenses that Kleiner Perkins was looking for would be excessively awesome a money related weight on Pao, regardless of the fact that she has impressive monetary assets she could call her own.
As per prior filings for the situation by Kleiner Perkins, Pao kept running up her own lawful costs of $2.7 million and that she offered to drop her allure of the jury's decision if Kleiner Perkins repaid her for those expenses. Kleiner Perkins has declined to pay her to drop her allure, it said.
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