Question: which former lawyer previously held the seat held by Yuh-Line Niou

full_context: Document 1: Louis DeSalvio: Louis F. DeSalvio (May 29, 1910 – August 17, 2004) served in the New York State Assembly for over 38 continuous years, longer than all but one other member in the history of that body. From 1941 to 1979, he represented districts that included the southern end of Manhattan (including the Lower East Side), Liberty Island, Ellis Island, Governors Island, and (after 1972) the eastern edge of Staten Island. From 1975 to 1978, he served as the Assembly’s speaker pro tempore. In that capacity, he often presided over the body.
Document 2: Andrea Stewart-Cousins: Andrea Stewart-Cousins (Democrat, Independence and Working Families) is a New York State Senator and the first woman in New York State history to lead a conference in Albany. The Yonkers resident represents the 35th State Senate district in New York which in its present configuration includes Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Elmsford, Greenburgh, Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington, Tarrytown, Scarsdale and parts of Yonkers, White Plains, and New Rochelle. Prior to being elected to the New York State Senate, she was a Westchester County Legislator. She was elected to the New York State Senate in 2006. In 2012, her colleagues chose her to be the first female legislative leader; she currently serves as Democratic Conference Leader.
Document 3: Yuh-Line Niou: Yuh-Line Niou () is a Taiwanese-American politician. She is a Democratic Party member of the New York State Assembly for the 65th district, the seat previously held by Sheldon Silver. This district which, is heavily Democratic and 40% Asian, includes Chinatown, the Financial District, Battery Park City, and the Lower East Side. Niou is the first Asian-American elected to the State Assembly for this district. Her name is pronounced "you-lean nee-oh" or "you lean new", according to various sources.
Document 4: New Territories Association of Societies: The New Territories Association of Societies (, NTAS) is a pro-Beijing umbrella political group which consists of hundreds of the New Territories community organisations. The founding president of the Association was Lee Lin-sang, who served as the delegate to the National People's Congress in the 1980s and member of the HKSAR Preparatory Committee before the handover of Hong Kong. The Association plays important coordination roles in the election campaigns for the pro-Beijing camp by mobilising members of its affiliated groups to vote for the pro-Beijing candidates. The Association currently holds two seats in the Legislative Council (LegCo), Leung Che-cheung and Chan Han-pan who are both affiliated with the largest pro-Beijing party Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (while Leung does not put NTAS as his political affiliation on his biography). Leung also serves as the current president of the Association.
Document 5: Sheldon Silver: Sheldon "Shelly" Silver (born February 13, 1944) is a former lawyer and Democratic Party politician from New York City, who rose to become the powerful Speaker of the New York State Assembly in 1994 until his arrest on federal corruption charges in 2015. He was initially convicted, but his conviction was overturned.
Document 6: Rudy Giuliani: Rudolph William Louis Giuliani {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; born May 28, 1944) is an American lawyer, businessman, public speaker, former mayor of New York City, and an informal adviser on cybersecurity to the White House.
Document 7: Diane Yatauro: Diane Yatauro was an American politician affiliated with the Democratic party. She was formerly the representative of the 18th Legislative District in the County Legislature of Nassau County, New York, as well as the former Presiding Officer of the Nassau County Legislature and the former Minority Leader of the Nassau County Legislature.
Document 8: Alice Cancel: Alice Cancel is the former Assembly member for the 65th District of the New York State Assembly. She is a Democrat. The district included the neighborhoods of the Lower East Side, East Village, Little Italy, Chinatown, SoHo, TriBeCa, the Financial District, Battery Park and Governor's Island in Manhattan. In 2016, Cancel was defeated in the Democratic primary for her seat by Yuh-Line Niou.
Document 9: Gerald B. Lefcourt: Gerald B. Lefcourt is a criminal defense lawyer with a reputation for taking on unpopular and high-profile clients, including such clients as the Black Panthers, Abbie Hoffman, Harry Helmsley, a co-defendant of Michael Milken, former New York State Assembly Speaker, Mel Miller, Russell Crowe, and Tracy Morgan. He was a featured personality in the 2006 documentary Giuliani Time. Recent victories include a full acquittal of rap mogul and Murder, Inc. Records founder Irv Gotti on federal money laundering charges. Lefcourt is currently one of the attorneys in the federal KPMG tax shelter fraud prosecution, believed to be the largest tax fraud case ever brought in the history of the United States.
Document 10: Sheila Oliver: Sheila Y. Oliver (born July 14, 1952) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2004, where she represents the 34th legislative district. She previously served as the Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly for two terms, from January 12, 2010 to January 14, 2014. In July 2017, Phil Murphy, the Democratic Party nominee for governor, selected Oliver as his running mate for Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey in the November 2017 election.
Document 11: Nicole Malliotakis: Nicole Malliotakis (born November 11, 1980) is an American Republican politician from New York City who represents part of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and East Shore, Staten Island in the New York State Assembly. She is the daughter of Greek and Cuban immigrants. She is the only Republican woman elected in New York City and the first Hispanic-American to win elected office in Staten Island. She is one of the first two Greek-American women elected to office in New York State.
Document 12: Bradley D. Simon: Bradley D. Simon is the Founding Partner of Simon & Partners LLP, which represents both corporations and individuals in the areas of white collar criminal defense, complex civil litigation and corporate compliance. Mr. Simon started the firm in 1998 with a New York City office, and has since grown the business with presences in Washington D.C., and most recently London. Mr. Simon has represented several defendants involved in high-profile cases, including: Alan Hevesi in connection with then New York State Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, investigation into the New York State Pension Fund scandal., David Chang in connection with bribery and corruption charges that led to the resignation of former New Jersey Senator Robert G. Torricelli., UK Solicitor Jeffrey Tesler against charges of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act when working with Halliburton in Nigeria and James Marquez of Bayou Hedge Fund Group in the first-ever criminal prosecution of a hedge fund. Through aggressive representations, Mr. Simon has earned a reputation as a strong advocate for clients in highly public, combative cases, as stated in the "New York Times" story with regard to Alan Hevesi’s choice to switch lawyers in the middle of his defense.
Document 13: Tye Leung Schulze: Tye Leung Schulze became the first Chinese American woman to vote when she cast a ballot in San Francisco on May 19, 1912. The "San Francisco Call" stated that she was "the first Chinese woman in the history of the world to exercise the electoral franchise." Schulze was also the first Chinese woman hired to work at Angel Island. She is a designated Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.
Document 14: Neo Democrats: The Neo Democrats () is a pro-democracy localist political group in Hong Kong composed mainly of former and disenchanted members of the Democratic Party New Territories East constituency branch after the 2012 constitutional reform proposals. It formerly had one seat in the Legislative Council until Gary Fan lost his re-election in the 2016 Legislative Council election. It currently holds 13 seats in the District Councils, mostly in New Territories East.
Document 15: Shelley Adler: Shelley Levitan Adler (born October 4, 1959, Chicago, Illinois) is a lawyer, former councilwoman, and the wife of former Congressman John Adler, who died in 2011. In 2012, Adler unsuccessfully sought election as a Democrat to the US House of Representatives in New Jersey's Third Congressional District.
ground_truth: Sheldon Silver