In the Democratic race for attorney general, Shannon Liss-Riordan has presented herself as a champion of working people, a class-action employment lawyer who has put millions of dollars back in the pockets of waitresses, truck drivers, janitors, and other undervalued employees she has represented in court.
But the prolific attorney was also faulted, well before her foray into politics, for seeking substantial shares of those lucrative settlements, a criticism that goes straight to the heart of her campaign as a tireless defender of low-wage workers.
In 2016, US District Judge Edward M. Chen threw out her $100 million settlement with Uber as “not fair, adequate, and reasonable,” saying it wasn’t a good enough deal for the drivers, some of whom had publicly blasted her for seeking $25 million in legal fees.
Douglas O’Connor, the original complainant, accused Liss-Riordan of selling drivers out, while Hunter Shkolnik, a lawyer representing other Uber drivers who objected to the settlement, said she had “single-handedly stuck a knife in the back of every Uber driver in the country.”
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Liss-Riordan said that only about 30 of the nearly 400,000 drivers objected to the proposed settlement. And despite the competing interests cited by lawyers, “the court had certified the case as a class action and agreed with me that they shared a common interest,” she said.
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