Ellen Pao fired back at her former employer in a court filing on Friday, saying Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is improperly publicizing confidential negotiations and asking her to pay unreasonable legal costs.

Pao's attorneys said in a motion filed in San Francisco Superior Court that "a confidential post-trial discussion about settlement was being communicated extensively to the press in a negative light." The filing said Pao should not have to pay Kleiner's "gargantuan and unreasonable charges"...