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Labor/Employment

Mar. 26, 2015

Ellen Pao's lawyer calls Kleiner Perkins a boys' club, but defense fires back

Ellen Pao's attorneys told jurors that her former employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was a boys' club where women for punished for doing the same things as her male partners.


By Philip Johnson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - Ellen Pao's attorneys told jurors considering her gender discrimination and retaliation complaint Tuesday that her former employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was a boys' club where she for punished for doing the same things as her male partners.


Alan Exelrod, a partner with Rudy Exelrod Zieff & Lowe, said in closing arguments that Kleiner Perkins scrambled to ...

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