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The tech world has no shortage of lawsuits, from patent disputes to antitrust cases. But there’s something unique about the recent string of high-profile complaints filed against some of the industry’s buzziest companies: Tesla, Pinterest, and Rivian. All were brought by female former employees, each alleges some form of gender discrimination, and unlike many similar suits in the past, the plaintiffs in each of these cases made their claims very, very public. There is another notable connection: All of the complaints were filed by the same attorney, David Lowe, of San Francisco–based employment law firm Rudy Exelrod Zieff & Lowe.
Lowe, 51, has emerged as a go-to for tech employees—from C-level executives to those on the factory front lines—who say they’ve been wronged by their multibillion-dollar employers. In December alone, Lowe filed six separate suits against Elon Musk’s Tesla, alleging a culture of sexual harassment, lewd comments, and inappropriate touching. Taking on the world’s most powerful corporations is nothing new for Lowe or his firm; Rudy Exelrod Zieff & Lowe also handled Ellen Pao’s industry-rocking suit against her former employer, VC giant Kleiner Perkins, back in 2012. But he and his colleagues are now at the forefront of what could become a game-changing shift in how these cases are handled.
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