Labor lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan has become the de facto lawyer for anyone who’s been stiffed by billionaire Elon Musk

Shannon Liss-Riordan , a labor lawyer based in Massachusetts , has sued Elon Musk repeatedly.

She's known for her work representing gig economy workers in class action suits against the likes of Uber and Lyft .

After Musk purchased Twitter in 2022 , she brought a slew of class action cases and roughly 2,000 arbitration cases against him.

The fact that a process was used that would result in such disparate outcomes is itself illegal.

Had anyone bothered to do a disparate impact analysis, they would have seen that these results were highly disproportionately affecting women, Black employees, employees on family and medical leave, and older workers.

The defense that we’re hearing sounds very familiar. It’s the same thing that America PAC has said about why it hasn’t made all these payments that it promised.

A Supreme Court decision that was authored by the late justice Antonin Scalia , the Concepcion decision, handed a huge weapon to employers.

Workers bound by arbitration clauses have to come forward and get a lawyer to bring a claim.

They might be able to get a recovery for themselves, but it's not a method to actually change a company's practices.