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A First Nations lawyer who launched the legal fight for day school survivors before the file was turned over to a larger law firm as a class-action, has won a lawsuit against that firm.

Joan Jack filed the statement of claim for a group of day school survivors in 2009.

Gowling WLG took over the file in 2016 using work Jack and other lawyers had done, including a database of 12,500 potential class action members.

Gowling got a $1.5 billion settlement for day school survivors and were paid $55 million in legal fees.

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