TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grisham,John
TI  - The street lawyer / 
SN  - 0-09-924492-6
U1  - 813 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London
PB  - Arrow, 
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Suspense fiction
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - Homeless persons
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - Women lawyers
KW  - Legal fiction (Literature)
KW  - Attorney and client
N2  - Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant DC firm with eight hundered 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 from the firm and took a top-secret file with him. He landed in the streets, an advocate for the homeless, a street lawyer
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