Top Lawyers Of Usa

So, who are they? Here is a quick look at the wealthiest attorneys in the world, ranked from the lowest net value to the highest. Please note that the people on this list are all practicing attorneys or judges. There are loads of additional "attorneys " using a substantially higher net value, but they just have a law degree and no more use it.

David Boies: $20 million

Currently serving as the chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, David Boies formerly served as Chief Counsel for the US Senate. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 and almost immediately made a name for himself. He gathered his fortune by representing several big corporations, such as IBM, Napster, George Steinbrenner (owner of the NY Yankees), CBS, and the NBA Players Association throughout the 2011 NBA lockout. According to Fortune magazine, he's "corporate America's number 1 hired gun. "

Willie E. Gary: $100 million

Nicknamed "The Giant Killer," Willie Gary has taken on a number of the country 's biggest corporations, including Anheuser-Busch and Disney. He's won some of the biggest settlements and jury awards at the U.S., including several cases valued at over $30 billion. A graduate of Shaw University, he's now the managing director at Gary, Williams, Parenti, Watson, and Gary, P.L.L.C., works as a motivational speaker, and has emerged as a legal analyst on "The Early Show. "

Roy Black: $100 million

Still another civil and criminal defense attorney, Roy Black, a graduate from the University of Miami, is the senior partner at Black, Srebnick, Kornspan, & Stumpf. For more than 40 decades, he's represented high profile clients, including William Kennedy Smith (acquitted on rape charges), Albertson's, Inc., and Helio Castroneves. Known by many in the industry for having "the very best national standing in Florida," he also acts as a legal analyst on "The Now Show" and "Good Morning America" and teaches advanced criminal evidence in the University of Miami, more ideas.

Alan Dershowitz: $25 million

After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1962, Alan Dershowitz went right to work. By 1964, he was a member of the Harvard Law School school and in 1967he had been made a complete professor. (He retired in 2013.) While teaching courses, he was also making a name for himself in the criminal law area. Thanks to his standing as the "top lawyer of last resort," he's a bevy of high-profile clients, such as Mike Tyson, Jim Baker, Leona Helmsley, O.J. Simpson, and Jeffrey Epstein. In addition, he's composed more than a dozen books. Everything together helped him amass his fortune

John Branca: $50 million

A graduate of the UCLA School of Law, John Branca has had a lengthy career as an entertainment and corporate lawyer with a focus on representing roll and rock acts and separate investors. He has represented over 30 members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and is on pretty much every list of premier entertainment attorneys in the world. On a side note, he serves as the co-executor of Michael Jackson's estate.