Former Philadelphia City Solicitor Sozi Pedro Tulante is considered the front-runner among candidates vying for the position of U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, sources told The Legal.

Tulante, now a partner at Dechert in Philadelphia, spent two years as the city's general counsel from 2016 to 2018, overseeing an office of 220 lawyers in the Philadelphia Law Department. Prior to that he was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia, where he handled investigations and prosecutions of white-collar crime and other offenses.