IBM In the last decade, IBM hasfired thousands of people in the U.S., Canada and other high-wagejurisdictions in an effort to cut costs and retool its workforce.(Photo: Shutterstock)

A lawyer known for battling tech giants over the treatment of workers has set her sights onInternational Business Machines Corp.

Shannon Liss-Riordan on Monday filed a class-action lawsuit infederal court in Manhattan on behalf of three former IBM employeeswho say the tech giant discriminated against them based on their age when it fired them.Liss-Riordan, a partner at Lichten & Liss-Riordan in Boston,has represented workers against Amazon, Uber and Google and hasstyled her firm as the premier champion for employees left behindby powerful tech companies.

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