Ellen Pao vs. Ellen Pao: who will the jury believe?
The most excruciating moments in the last leg of the gender discrimination trial against Kleiner Perkins happened Tuesday afternoon when Lynne Hermle, Kleiner’s formidable attorney, walked away from the podium to deliver parts of her summation a few feet closer to Ellen Pao. Outside the courtroom, Pao seems light-hearted, impish even. In the elevator last week, a reporter loudly kvetched about sitting through the month-long trial, and Pao piped up: “It’ll be over soon!” From the plaintiff’s table, however, Pao can be inscrutable.
“Plays it close to the vest” was a critique in one of Pao’s performance reviews, and Hermle has quoted it to the jury a number of times. (Like “aggressive,” when applied to Pao, Kleiner Perkins meant it as a…
Source:: The Verge
