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The Lawyer Who Took On Uber Is Suing IBM for Age Discrimination

Shannon Liss-Riordan says the company has wrongfully terminated thousands of workers for being too old. Can she make it stick?

Pedestrians walk past IBM offices in New York.
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By Gerrit De Vynck

September 17, 2018 at 5:30 PM UTC

Corrected

September 19, 2018 at 2:42 PM UTC

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This article is part of the September 24, 2018 issue of businessweek.

Shannon Liss-Riordan has been compared to “a pit bull with a Chihuahua in its mouth.” In a career spanning almost 20 years, the Boston-based lawyer has gone after corporations that have either harmed consumers or their own employees. She’s represented workers against Amazon, Uber and Google and has styled her firm as the premier champion for employees left behind by powerful tech companies.

Now Liss-Riordan, 49, is gunning for International Business Machines Corp.