Trutanich Wages An Uphill Battle To Be 'Rehired' As City Attorney

All he asks, Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich frequently says, is that voters judge him on his record.

As he wages an uphill battle to hang onto to his job in the May 21 election, Trutanich rattles off a list of reasons he should be "rehired" to head one of the nation's largest municipal law firms.

He cites a substantially reduced reliance on costly outside attorneys, favorable outcomes in lawsuits that he says have saved taxpayers more than $300 million and a crackdown on illegal billboards that activists called scourges on their neighborhoods. His legal team also went after tax scofflaws, collecting more than $18 million owed the city, and sued two large banks for allowing homes they had foreclosed on to become blighted and magnets for crime. (Read more here.)

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CityWatch

5-13-13