Ex-DLA Partner Who Forged Payroll Docs to Boost Salary Gets Jail Time
A lawyer accused of lying about his compensation as a partner at DLA Piper to get more money from his new law firm, Duane Morris, is going to jail for forging a payroll statement to support his story.
A Singapore judge sentenced the lawyer, Rudy Lim, to two months in jail, according to the Straits Times and the American Lawyer. Lim is out on bail and is appealing the conviction and sentence.
Lim was accused of telling Duane Morris that his monthly draw had been $65,000 at DLA, when it actually was $25,000. In 2007, he moved to Duane Morris and opened a Singapore office for the law firm.
Lim’s former colleagues at DLA had alerted local authorities about the forgery after they found the forged payroll statement on Lim’s computer, the Straits Times says. Lim had headed DLA’s Indonesia practice.
