Ellen Pao walks to a courtroom in San Francisco Superior Court in San Francisco, California February 26, 2015.
Credit: /Robert Galbraith
- Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers tried to demonstrate on Wednesday that a former partner suing the venture capital firm for gender discrimination was motivated by money, as its lawyer cross-examined her for a second day.
Ellen Pao has testified that she filed her 2012 lawsuit because she "wanted to change Kleiner Perkins." Pao's lawsuit helped spark a broad and ongoing conversation about gender issues in Silicon Valley.
In San Francisco Superior Court on Wednesday, Kleiner lawyer Lynne Hermle asked Pao why she hired an employment attorney and demanded a 10-figure severance payment before she wrote a memo to colleagues about problems women faced at the firm in 2012.
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