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The Globe and Mail on 2017-10-23 11:00

Lawyers accused of ‘greed’ in taking fees from residential-school survivors

Saskatchewan’s Doug Racine says lawyers regularly received additional 15-per-cent awards deducted from their client’s compensation on top of initial pay

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