Pak

BACKGROUND

Pak was employed as the associate general counsel at Github for 11 months. Before she accepted the position, she twice negotiated the offered compensation package upwards, before accepting the offer of $255,000 in salary, a $15,000 bonus, and 85,000 shares of stock. She signed an at-will employment agreement reflecting that compensation. She also negotiated that she would report to the general counsel, Julio Avalos, rather than to Tal Niv, then the vice-president, law and policy, as originally planned. Prior to being hired as associate general counsel, Pak had been searching for a job after being terminated from a general counsel position at

1 ClearCare, Inc. After being told by a GitHub employee she knew that GitHub’s general counsel, Julio Avalos, was a “great guy . . . incredibly smart, insightful and a great boss,” Pak spoke with Avalos about working for GitHub. Avalos asked Pak to draft a job specification for her proposed role to include “corporate work, stock admin, all of the commercial paper, international subs, etc.” Pak drafted a job specification for a “VP Legal/GC role.” Avalos responded that he was “green-lighting the creation of the new senior role to…