2. William Lerach – Net worth $900 million
Since disbarred, William Lerach was formerly an attorney who commonly represented fraud cases. Throughout his career, Lerach has recovered $45 billion for victims of fraud.
Lerach’s most famous case was against Enron, and became the largest amount ever recovered in a class-action lawsuit in American history – $7.12 billion. Lerach has sued Dick Cheney, former Vice President, as well as Haliburton – he was even listed as one of the best lawyers in America. However, this all came crashing down in 2007 when Lerach was investigated for obstruction of justice and lying under oath. He served some time in prison and lost his licence to practice law.
