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 ER -