By Khushwant Singh

A FORMER lawyer who allegedly inflated his monthly salary on a payroll statement from $25,000 to $65,000 to get more money from a new employer, is now on trial for forgery.

After Rudy Lim, 37, moved from international law firm DLAS to Duane Morris LLP in January 2007, DLAS employees going through the work he had done found the forged payroll statement in the electronic records stored in the firm's computer server.

The Commercial Affairs Department was called in, and Lim quit Duane Morris in May 2007 when the officers started looking into what he had done. But by then, his ploy had already paid off. Lim's last drawn salary at Duane Morris was $58,200 a month - significantly higher than the $25,000 he had received at DLAS.

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