Umm.... let me get this straight, GS is required to pay the legal fees because he was an employee at GS? So if the company sues one of its employees, it has to pay for both sides? Really?
PS: If i remember correctly, hadn't Sergey resigned from GS by then? I thought he was just hanging around an extra week or two to train his successors.
> It's actually fairly common throughout the western world that the loser of a civil suite must supply legal fees.
It is uncommon in the United States. Which is why it's surprising.
In the last 200 years, American common law has diverged a great deal from British/Commonwealth common law, both in the law itself, and in how it's practiced.
PS: If i remember correctly, hadn't Sergey resigned from GS by then? I thought he was just hanging around an extra week or two to train his successors.