Pao wants $2.7 million in legal costs to settle with Kleiner Perkins

For $2.7 million, Ellen Pao is offering to forego an appeal of her unsuccessful gender bias and retaliation lawsuit against her former employer, prominent venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The request by Pao that Kleiner Perkins cover her legal costs in return for a settlement of the bitterly fought civil case is revealed in a new filing that the venture firm’s lawyers made Friday in San Francisco Superior Court. Pao originally sought $16 million but a jury ruled against her…