American attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan made headlines on Thursday, November 3, when she filed a complaint against Twitter Inc and sued them in a class action lawsuit over laying off almost 3,700 employees in a federal court in San Francisco. It was also the second time since June 2022 that Liss-Riordan sued an Elon Musk-owned company, as she also registered a similar lawsuit against Tesla Inc earlier this year.

“We filed this lawsuit tonight in an attempt the make sure that employees are aware that they should not sign away their rights and that they have an avenue for pursuing their rights,” Shannon Liss-Riordan said in an interview after filing the complaint against Twitter Inc.

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“We will now see if he is going to continue to thumb his nose at the laws of this country that protect employees,” she said before continuing, “It appears that he’s repeating the same playbook of what he did at Tesla.”

Who is Shannon Liss-Riordan?

Shannon Liss-Riordan is a famous American labor attorney who filed a complaint against Twitter Inc in a class action lawsuit on Thursday, November 3. She has previously also filed class action lawsuits against other top companies such as Uber, Starbucks, Tesla and FedEx.

She was born in 1969 and spent her childhood in Houston, Texas. She pursued a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College in 1990 and after graduating, began her career by working for Bella Abzug, a popular women’s movement leader. She was one of the co-founders of Third Wave Direct Action Coalition with Rebecca Walker. She later pursued a degree in law from Harvard Law School and graduated in 1996.

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She contested for the United States Senate for Massachusetts as a Democratic candidate in 2019. Liss-Riordan raised an election fund of $1.1 million at that time, which included a personal loan of $1 million. However, she later withdrew from the race on January 17, 2020.

The next year, the attorney announced that she would run for the seat of Massachusetts Attorney General on January 25. The Massachusetts AFL-CIO endorsed her, along with 50 more unions and at least 80 elected officials, which included the incumbent state Senator Elizabeth Warren. However, she was beaten by Andrea Campbell in the primaries.