I've got a question about this. I've heard the Geller firm was appointed to the class case in 2014 by Judge Curiel. Just curious, what does that mean to you?
To me, if you say a judge appointed an attorney to a plaintiff/defendant, that means the judge picked the lawyer/law firm from amongst many, just picked a name from a hat, so to speak.
But that's not what transpired, at least completely.
The Geller firm has actually been intimately involved in this case since 2010 when they filed a lawsuit against Trump U. and Trump in CA for their client, Tarla Makaeff (Makaeff chose the law firm, the judge didn't appoint them to her). The firm was the original lead firm in this now messy situation Trump finds himself in.
(This is one of the earliest filings on the Makaeff v. Trump case I can find, dated Apr. 30, 2010)
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2723645-Makaeff-v-Trump-University.html
So, when the judge appointed Geller as the lead attorney in the class action lawsuit, now named Low v. Trump, it was because they'd already been very much involved in the litigation from day one, and because it was very easy to certify the law firm to take over the entire class suit because the Geller firm is a world renowned firm in these sorts of cases.