Kleiner may be best VC firm for women, but most female investors say it will lose sexism trial

A Harvard University professor paid by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers testified on Thursday that the venture firm has the best record in its industry for putting women on the boards of portfolio companies. But a poll of women at a conference of female venture and private equity investors last week showed most of them think the prominent Menlo Park venture firm would lose in the sensational sexism lawsuit brought against it by former junior partner Ellen Pao. The Wall Street Journal reported that…