SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco officials agreed Friday to pay $725,000 to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a former Police Department lawyer.

Kelly O’Haire sued the city and Police Department in 2013, alleging she was fired because she accused Chief Greg Suhr of mishandling a domestic violence investigation.

O’Haire worked in internal affairs when she recommended that Suhr be fired in 2009.

Suhr was then a deputy chief when a friend called to report that her boyfriend had physically abused her. Suhr urged the friend to file a police report but failed to try to arrest the boyfriend, which O’Haire said violated a department policy. O’Haire recommended that the city’s Police Commission fire Suhr.

Suhr was demoted to captain. Two years later, Suhr was promoted to chief and fired O’Haire within weeks of taking the helm. O’Haire’s supervisor was also fired.

Suhr said the two dismissals were part of a cost-cutting effort.

The settlement was announced on the eve of trial after a judge refused to toss out the case. A judge and the city’s Board of Supervisors still need to authorize the payout.

“We are pleased,” said O’Haire’s lawyer, Randy Strauss. Strauss said O’Haire has been unable to find work as a lawyer since her dismissal. Strauss said O’Haire is an investigator with the University of California, Berkeley.

Matt Dorsey, a spokesman for the San Francisco city attorney’s office, said city lawyers decided to settle the case after discovering that other Police Department employees let go because of budgetary reasons were allowed to stay on the job after being notified of their dismissal for an extended period of time to increase retirement benefits.

O’Haire wasn’t allowed to stay on the payroll longer to increase her retirement.

Dorsey said Suhr would have let O’Haire continued to work for longer had he known other employees were given the same benefit.