Former assistant city attorney settles with city of St. Paul for $165,000

Former assistant city attorney settles with city of St. Paul for $165,000

After 28 years as a St. Paul assistant city attorney, Lisa Veith left City Hall, and not happily. The strategy of the city attorney’s office, in her words, was “making my work life horrendous so I’d either quit or they’d find some reason to fire me. … They tried to manage me out of my job.” Veith, who in her final years of city employment battled a skin cancer that metastasized to her brain, ...