Philadelphia plaintiffs firm Silvers, Langsam & Weitzman is seeking summary judgment in a paralegal’s harassment suit, arguing that she is not credible and that the ”discrete incidents of merely crude comments” in her complaint do not constitute pervasive conduct.

The law firm, which markets itself as MyPhillyLawyer, filed a motion Jan. 17 seeking to have the case dismissed by summary judgment. The firm says it fired paralegal Kimberly Hayes in March 2018 “after learning that she had misrepresented to financial institutions, and potentially others, that the firm represented a party in a real estate transaction involving her live-in boyfriend and friends” without the firm’s permission.

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