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Published in TZ Latest News 24 March, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Silicon Valley gender trial enters final stages

Dollar signs rather than discrimination drove a former partner at venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to file her gender discrimination suit, a lawyer for the firm told jurors Tuesday in the high-profile trial. “The complaints of Ellen Pao were made for only one purpose,” said Lynne Hermle, a lawyer for Kleiner Perkins, in her closing arguments in San Francisco Superior Court. “They ran Kleiner Perkins like a boys’ club,” Exelrod said of firm leaders, whom he blamed for creating an environment that worked against women.

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