The Street Lawyer (book)

--- status: Read date_finished: 2025-07-31 title: The Street Lawyer subtitle: "" description: A corporate lawyer in Washington goes to war against his own company to defend the homeless. It happens after Michael Brock is abducted by a homeless man and held hostage. The homeless man is killed by a police sharpshooter and the lawyer is rescued, but the experience changes his life. Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a conscience. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived; his assailant did not. Who was this man? Michael did some digging, and learned that he was a mentally ill veteran who'd been in and out of shelters for many years. Then Michael dug a little deeper, and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake & Sweeney. The fast track derailed; the ladder collapsed. Michael bolted the firm and took a top-secret file with him. He landed in the streets, an advocate for the homeless, a street lawyer. categories: - Fiction authors: - [[John Grisham]] published_on: 1998 publisher: pages: 584 isbn: 1568656718 cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B-9SelMazUsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api local_cover: 50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/The Street Lawyer (book).jpg link: https://amzn.to/3HpxSVm tags: - type/book - books - summaries - zone/areas - zone/areas/literature_notes created: 2025-06-05T10:12 updated: 2026-04-01T14:43 public_note: true date_started: 2025-07-09 rating: ★★★☆☆ --- # The Street Lawyer (book) - Author(s): [[John Grisham]] - Link: https://amzn.to/3HpxSVm ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/The Street Lawyer (book).jpg|200]] ## Description ## Quotes  ## Key ideas ... ## Chapter 1: ... ... ## References -