Harish Salve: $6 million
At 59 years old, Harish Salve has worked hard to create a reputation among India's best (and most expensive) attorneys, specializing in commercial, constitutional, and taxation law. Salve, who comes from a long line of attorneys and previously served as the Solicitor General of India, currently charges clients about $45,000 per day. In addition to representing many government entities, big corporate clients, and industrialist Mukesh Ambani, he's represented Bollywood stars in criminal cases.In fact, he's often referred to as famed actor Salman Khan's "guardian angel" for keeping him out of jail on a hit and run charge. (Indian prisons are renowned for harsh conditions.)
Vernon E. Jordan Jr.: $12 million
Born in 1935, Jordan has enjoyed a long law career that began after his graduation from Howard University. (In addition, he holds more than 70 honorary degrees from several colleges and universities.) He is currently the senior council, focusing on general council, business, and global law, in Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, and Feld LLP. His early career focused mostly on civil rights, while he later served as an advisor to President Clinton. The majority of his fortune had been earned by representing substantial businesses, including Xerox and American Express, in addition to spending time as Wall Street banker.
Lynn Toler: $15 million
Better called the judge by TV's Divorce Court since 2007, Lynn Toler previously served as the sole municipal court judge from Cleveland Heights, OH for at least 8 decades. After receiving her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1984, she concentrated on civil law until getting municipal court judge. Within this role, she was famous for enforcing nontraditional sentences, like writing essays. Besides presiding over divorce court, Lynn is the author of three novels.
Bill Neukom: $850 million
Currently serving as the founder and CEO of the World Justice Project, which is devoted to promoting the rule of law all around the planet, Bill Neukom is a corporate lawyer who's well-known because of his philanthropy. After graduating from Stanford Law School in 1967, he worked in a small firm until he was asked to do work for Microsoft, that was still in its beginning phases. Eventually, he became Microsoft's legal counsel, a position he held for 25 decades. Previously, he had been an investor in the San Francisco Giants.
Mark Geragos: $25 million
A 1992 graduate of Loyola Law School, Mark Geragos is a criminal defense lawyer who has also been engaged in several of landmark civil litigation class action cases. He has represented everyone from Chris Brown, Michael Jackson, and Winona Ryder into Scott Peterson and Susan McDougal. Named "One of the 100 Most Influential Attorneys in California," he holds a listing for one of the top 10 verdicts in California history to get a 2008 situation where he obtained a jury verdict awarding more than $38 from a pharmaceutical firm. He currently serves as a managing partner at Geragos and Geragos.
Richard Scruggs: $1.7 billion
A 1976 graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Law and a prominent trial attorney, Richard Scruggs is best known for his love of asbestos and tobacco cases and the fact that he won more than $1 billion in judgements against various businesses. He was also highly involved in 2000's Ritalin class action lawsuits, in addition to the 2003 case against Lehman Brothers for which he won a $51 million conclusion. But in 2007, he had been accused of judicial bribery. In 2008, he pled guilty and finally served six years in federal prison. Today, at age 70, he has completed his sentence, and it has retained his large fortune.
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