lynne hermle is a legendary defense attorney. her key takeaways from the trial and what the tech community can learn. lynee: great to be back in my office. great for kleiner perkins to prevail on everything. cory: the jurors were stunned when they saw all of the cameras. lynne: just a tidal wave of reporters, overwhelming. occasionally, people would tweets on my -- would tweets or e-mail me. cory: what made this case unusual? lynne: cases don't change industries, not what they are about. this case was the right issue at the right time, wrong case wrong forum. a very hot issue in silicon valley and people feel passionately about it. the media coverage made everything different. you could hear comments in the audience. the jurors were distracted by the clacking of the keyboards. cameras in your faces. cory: did that help you? lynne: it is a distraction you have to look beyond. you are always worried, what is the press reporting and if the jurors are reading it? this jury seem to be very careful about following the judge's admonitio

following the break, it was defense attorney lynne hermle's turn, who was louder and punchier in her portrayal of pao. she pointed out no other woman in the firm wanted to join ellen's lawsuit and when pao understood she wasn't going to advance, she said she went on the offensive, choosing a path she thought would lead to a multi multimillion dollar windfall. ellen pao is suing kleiner perkins for $16 million, but those are competence entry damages. punitive damages could kick it up to as much as $160 million. reporting from san matthews "nbc bay area news." >>> new at 5:00, a new kind of training is under way for vta workers in the south bay. vta employees, all 2,000 of them, will learn how to identify and report human trafficking. santa clara county and vta leaders say since transit workers deal with the public every day, they are in a unique position to help stop human trafficking. the supervisor dave cortese says supervisors are not enough to solve the problem. >> i don't think we could hire enough people with a badge and a gun to cover all the ground that you would need to cover

. >> reporter: attorney lynn hermle, who represented kleiner perkins, said the facting of the case were. >> it never occurred to me for a second that a careful and attentive jury like this would find either discrimination or retaliation, and i'm glad to have been proven right about that. >> if i've helped to level the playing field for women and minorities in venture capital, then the battle was worth it. >> reporter: and on that issue, the jury's still out. >> thank you. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> axelrod: there are bumpy roads ahead. coming up we'll go pothole hunting in a high-tech van. killing weeds where they grow. a barrier forms so weeds can't appear - serious weed prevention up to a year. [chorus singings:] ♪ roundup max control 365 ♪ so i'm fighting weeds on opening day and preventing weeds while i get away. weeds stay dead as we carve this beast, and they still aren't back when i cook this feast. [chorus singings:] ♪ roundup max control 365 ♪ one more time let me make it clear. with no more weeds it's your year. introducing... a pm pain reliever that