Uber Settlement Attacked by Drivers Saying Lawyer Sold Out

  • Competing attorney seeks removal of lead lawyer for plaintiffs
  • Shannon Liss-Riordan defends deal she got as fair outcome
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The lawyer who struck a $100 million deal with Uber Technologies Inc. is being accused of greed by some of the drivers covered by the accord who want her bumped.

“She has single-handedly stuck a knife in the back of every Uber driver in the country,” Hunter Shkolnik, a New York lawyer who’s pursuing his own cases against the ride-share service, said Friday in a phone interview. “The entire class was thrown under the bus and backed over.”