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Uber settlement attacked by drivers saying lawyer sold out
Source: Bloomberg
Uber settlement attacked by drivers saying lawyer sold out
By Rebecca Spalding, (c) 2016, Bloomberg
MAY 13, 2016, 11:20 PM
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."
Shkolnik asked the San Francisco federal judge who's weighing approval of the class-action settlement to remove Shannon Liss-Riordan as lead attorney, saying she sold out her clients by accepting a payout for California and Massachusetts drivers that's less than 10 percent of the value of their claims "while she walks away with $25 million."
Liss-Riordan said she did the best she could in a hard-fought and risky case to get a fair settlement for the drivers, which she said by some measurements amounts to almost a third of the damages they could have won if the case had gone to trial.
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By Rebecca Spalding, (c) 2016, Bloomberg
MAY 13, 2016, 11:20 PM
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."
Shkolnik asked the San Francisco federal judge who's weighing approval of the class-action settlement to remove Shannon Liss-Riordan as lead attorney, saying she sold out her clients by accepting a payout for California and Massachusetts drivers that's less than 10 percent of the value of their claims "while she walks away with $25 million."
Liss-Riordan said she did the best she could in a hard-fought and risky case to get a fair settlement for the drivers, which she said by some measurements amounts to almost a third of the damages they could have won if the case had gone to trial.
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Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-uber-a4631fc0-1944-11e6-971a-dadf9ab18869-20160513-story.html
