Bibliograph

The street lawyer, John Grisham

Type

Label

The street lawyer, John Grisham

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

790, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The street lawyer

Oclc number

57003872862932890318869973

Responsibility statement

John Grisham

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 5.7, 15.0, 35654.Reading Counts RC, High School, 6.6, 17, Quiz: 11017, Guided reading level: NR.

Summary

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

Target audience

general

Creator