Trilegal, Indus Law, and many more firms (like Capstone Legal and other medium and small scale firms) were founded by NLU grads. All these founders easily qualify for self made and they all must be quite rich by now!
Although Nishith Desai is not a NLU graduate, but he also falls in this list since he also started NDA from scratch.
The Seniors you mentioned here rake in great sums of money - for someone climbing without the help of a nepotistic ladder, that's way above 'top class'!
Sajjan would be the top contender to my mind although a lot of the Delhi . On the corporate side, Rahul/Karan Singh at Trilegal, Suneeth and Srini at Indus, LV at CAM and Aswath at AZB would be the top ones.
Older NLSIU grads who made partner at international law firms will also have made / be making good money. Many will be at $2-4mn pa and some $ 5 min pa if not more.
I think Aswath Rau would be in contention, maybe L Vishwanathan as well. On the litigation side, no one has reached the top tier yet, though knocking on those doors would be Dayan, Poovayya, Bhan, Rajshekhar Rao etc.
Take a look:https://www.barandbench.com/news/harminder-chawla-assumes-the-role-of-managing-partner-at-luthra-and-luthra-law-offices-india
For Atlas to get its 27 lawyer firm to join L&L is no small task. The democratization has started again after burning fingers with Mohit Saraf.
Although Nishith Desai is not a NLU graduate, but he also falls in this list since he also started NDA from scratch.
I bet there will be a lot more examples as well!
Tried influencing people’s investments till SEBI cracked down - now claims to be a “fin-fluencer”.
Great that he has become YouTube personality but let’s not let those likes delude the world as to what he has monetarily earned.
And certainly he can’t be compared to likes of Ashwath or L. Vishwanathan