text: The lawyers overcharging on aboriginal issues has been going on for decades.  Lawyers who are members at the same golf course as I am, whose main files are aboriginal land claims have standing 1:30 tee times during the week and yet are ignorant to say they are 100% chargeable.    I know of abuses going back to the late 40s when some reserve land was deemed unnecessary, the amount paid by the famer purchasing the land was far greater than what was transferred to the band/govt.  Don't know who received the difference but the cheque did go to an Ontario law firm.