The two L.A. city attorney candidates in the Nov. 8 election came from different worlds, immigrated to the U.S., found success.
The Nov. 8 race for Los Angeles City Attorney pits Hydee Feldstein Soto against Faisal Gill, who was the top vote-getter in the June statewide direct primary election.
The next city attorney, who is elected for a four-year term, could set the pace for the city’s approach to homelessness, affordable housing, public safety and other pressing issues. She or he will replace City Attorney Mike Feuer who is termed out after serving two terms. “It’s a significant amount of my money ,” Gill said. “I believe in my vision for the city attorney office and my candidacy, so I’m putting my money where my mouth is. My opponent could have done the same thing, but she chose not to.”
Neither candidate has been elected to public office. Gill ran unsuccessfully for legislative seats in both Virginia and Vermont. Feldstein Soto has never run for office. Feldstein Soto says the city attorney position calls for managing large transactions and commercial contracts and indentures, managing the city’s teams of litigators in the civil and criminal justice worlds, and working with diverse clients who speak with different voices.
Gill migrated from Pakistan to the East Coast with his family in 1980 when he was 8 years old, and graduated from American University Law School in Washington DC. He lived in L.A. from 2008 to 2015, returned to the East for work, then settled in L.A. in 2018.
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