Rachel Leviss’ lawsuit against Tom Sandoval gets more and more complicated by the day. For those who missed the last major update, Tom hired someone very close to Rachel’s lawyer to represent him. Yes, the lawyers each representing the individual Vanderpump Rules stars are brothers. Literal familial brothers.
So, will that affect the case in any way? Will that change anything? Apparently not. Kind of odd how the U.S. legal system just allows this sort of thing to happen. But hear it from Rachel’s attorney, Mark Geragos.
Did Tom Sandoval knowingly hire Mark’s brother?
On the September 10 episode of Rachel’s podcast, her attorney joined her to clear the air. “We … had a situation when Mr. Sandoval hired my brother,” Geragos said. At Rachel’s request, he explained, “Matt is my little brother and Sandoval hired him. I can’t blame him because Matt is a hell of a lawyer.”
As far as why Tom hired Matt, Mark had his suspicions. “I think he thought Matt was going to whisper in my ear at Thanksgiving or something. Who knows what he thought?” Even if Tom hired Matt without any knowledge of the familial relationship, surely, that would be a conflict of interest, no? Well, Mark didn’t seem to think so.
Geragos assured listeners that he couldn’t say with certainty why Tom hired Matt. “I have no inside information as to what transpired or how that transpired. I will tell you that for [the people asking] if that is a conflict of interest, if Matt worked with me then yes. It would be a conflict of interest.” He added, “If we were partners in a law firm, it would be a conflict of interest.”
Mark then explained, “It’s not like we’re at Christmas dinner saying, ‘Okay, I’ll do this on Rachel’s end, and you do this on Tom’s end.’ It’s not a conflict of interest. It’s an interesting choice.” An interesting choice indeed.
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