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Jerry Nadler: “If an AG, through a contingency fee lawyer, wins millions of dollars in damages for the taxpayers or for some injured…”

On the recordMarch 12, 2013
If an AG, through a contingency fee lawyer, wins millions of dollars in damages for the taxpayers or for some injured class in the State, what is wrong with that?
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Nadler defends the use of contingency fee lawyers for state attorneys general.

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