As I understand it, it’s not about legal costs in the sense of the fees that Kleiner’s lawyers were paid, but rather costs for expert witnesses and other non-la

As I understand it, it’s not about legal costs in the sense of the fees that Kleiner’s lawyers were paid, but rather costs for expert witnesses and other non-lawyer costs. Specifically, $864,680 in expert witness fees, $59,000 in deposition costs, and $40,000 in other costs. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/kleiner-perkins-asks-ellen-pao-for-nearly-1-million-in-costs-after-trial/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/kleiner-perkins-a... It’s not impossible to recover your lawyers’ fees too, but it is quite hard in the American system and you would have to show malicious intent, and there’s no similar mechanism where you make a settlement offer and can then recover based on that.