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The Biglaw partner behind 'Send it to Darrell.'

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Lala Kent knows why you hire a Biglaw attorney. (Photo by Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)

Even folks who turn their nose up at reality TV have, at this point, have heard about the Vanderpump Rules love triangle. For the uninitiated, Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix of Vanderpump Rules fame have split, and a relationship between Tom and co-star Raquel Leviss is at the heart of it all. Scandal! — or rather #Scandoval!

And, because it’s reality TV, the co-stars/friends of the one-time couple are deeply involved. Leviss’s attorney apparently sent a letter to several Vanderpump Rules co-stars, including Lala Kent, asking them to delete and not distribute an intimate video of Leviss that is reportedly at the heart of the cheating scandal.

Kent… did not take kindly to getting the legal correspondence when she has an attorney to handle these things. She took to the socials:

“Raquel, tell your little Mickey Mouse lawyer that if he has stuff to send over, he can send things to my lawyer, same with the rest of my friends and cast, all right?”

“I’ve never in my life had a lawyer contact me in my personal email, all right?” Kent continued. “… You have something to send over, you can send it to my lawyer. That’s why we HAVE counsel, ‘kay? I don’t want to deal. I have a life going on. I got a little baby to take care of. I don’t want to see that in the morning. I don’t want to see that ever.”

And then the money line that launched a thousand memes:

“Send it to Darrell!”

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You can watch the instantly iconic (though now deleted from Kent’s socials) rant below.

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This begs the question — who *is* Darrell?

Well, he’s Fox Rothschild partner Darrell Miller. The Georgetown University Law Center graduate is the founding chair of the entertainment & sports law practice at the Biglaw firm. And when Kent’s post went viral, Miller was informed by attorneys working for him. And, as he told Law360, he was a little baffled.

“They ran in and said, ‘You’re a meme!'” Miller recalled with a laugh. “I was like, ‘What are you talking about? What is a meme?'”

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And it’s been, well, a WILD ride for Miller.

“This has been the most hilarious thing that I’ve ever experienced,” Miller told Law360 Pulse. “And no, this is never something that I’ve been part of in all my 30 years of practice.”

He’s much more comfortable working behind the scenes:

“I’m a worker bee more than I am trying to be visible in pop culture,” he said.

Miller would rather his hard work do the talking, “That’s really my day-to-day — phone calls, deal-making, conversations, crises management. Adding pop culture on top of that is never a good combination.”

“At the core of who I am is just a boring guy who’s always got my head down,” Miller said. “I like to work really, really, really, really hard.”

So back to that viral post… what even happened with that letter Kent received:

“But in the unscripted world where these ladies go back and forth, it’s not uncommon,” he said. “I think they were panicking, trying to cover up something and threaten people not to talk about something that they didn’t want public.”

Miller noted that the attorney who reached out to Kent never did “send it to Darrell.”

“I think that lawyer is terrified,” Miller said. “But Darrell is sending something to that lawyer.”

And *that* is why you hire a Biglaw attorney.

Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1 or Mastodon @Kathryn1@mastodon.social.

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