• Ellen Pao faces $1m legal bill
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Her former employer is willing to waive it if she agrees to not appeal. Sounds fair in all honesty. I could not imagine having a million dollar debt hanging over me.
This doesn't include attorneys' fees: [QUOTE=Ars Technica]In today's filing (PDF), Kleiner Perkins asked for $864,680 in expert witness fees, as well as $59,000 in deposition costs and $40,000 in unspecified other costs. Attorneys' fees were not included in the cost schedule.[/QUOTE] She should probably have taken the November deal.
This whole case still confuses me, certain political media treated this woman like she was the 21st century Susan B. Anthony, fighting for women in tech. But the bits I've read about her case make her sound more like a manipulative douche who just used the popular flogging post of sexism in tech as a smoke screen for her suit. Granted I haven't paid a huge amount of attention to this, but that's the gist I get from this. Am I wrong?
[QUOTE=Srillo;47591676]This whole case still confuses me, certain political media treated this woman like she was the 21st century Susan B. Anthony, fighting for women in tech. But the bits I've read about her case make her sound more like a manipulative douche who just used the popular flogging post of sexism in tech as a smoke screen for her suit. Granted I haven't paid a huge amount of attention to this, but that's the gist I get from this. Am I wrong?[/QUOTE] Shes just another Anita type person, yet Pao is gonna crash and burn now because of this and everyone praising her will go down in internet history as fucking idiots because the only thing people are gonna see from now on is how she lost this case and was a shitty person.
[QUOTE=Alyx Zark;47591278]Her former employer is willing to waive it if she agrees to not appeal. Sounds fair in all honesty. I could not imagine having a million dollar debt hanging over me.[/QUOTE]Now try to imagine the $16 million worth of debt she faces because of the ponzi scheme her and her husband ran.
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