We came across this report on the UK’s Trainee Slctr website – which they in turn have culled from The American Lawyer…. Rudy Lim,? a former DLA Piper partner who left the firm in 2006 to open a Singapore office for US firm Duane Morris 37, has been charged with falsely inflating his pay at DLA to obtain a better salary at Duane Morris….as i’ve been teaching the kids to say … nice one geezer !
One has to wonder about these people , as if he can’t already have been earning enough at DLA Piper and we presume offered a decent pay hike to go to Duane Morris.. he still had to see whether he could get more.
Sympathy levels at AALE are pretty low
This is what the Am Lwyr report reveals…
Rudy Lim, 37, has been charged with falsely inflating his pay at DLA to obtain a better salary at Duane Morris.
Lim is accused of forging a payroll statement from DLA to show that his monthly drawings from the firm were $65,000 (£39,400) instead of $25,000 (£15,100), which would boost his annual pay from $300,000 (£182,000) at DLA to $780,000 (£472,000) at Duane Morris.
The Straits Times of Singapore reports that in January 2007, Lim began drawing $58,200 (£35,200) a month from his new firm – an annual salary of $698,400 (£423,000) before taxes. But the pay increase would only be temporary.
DLA Piper employees looking at electronic records stored on Lim’s computer found the forged payroll statement and alerted Singapore’s Commercial Affairs Department. Lim resigned from Duane Morris in May 2007 after finding out about the investigation, The Straits Times reports.
In Singapore, a forgery conviction carries a sentence of up to seven years in prison and a fine.
Lim, born in Indonesia of Chinese extraction, is admitted as a solicitor and barrister in Australia and as a solicitor in England and Wales. He previously worked at White & Case and Baker & McKenzie.
At DLA Piper, Lim advised public and private companies on cross-border and domestic M&A, foreign direct investments and joint ventures. He made partner at DLA in February 2006 and chaired the firm’s Indonesia practice.
Full report at? http://www.traineesolicitor.co.uk/forums/legal-week/19664-former-dla-piper-partner-faces-forgery-trial-singapore.html
