FREE ESSAY ON THE STREET LAWYER

THE STREET LAWYER

Plot outline
The main character in this book is Michael Brock, a lawyer working for Drake & Sweeney.
One day a homeless man comes into the firm and holds Michael and other lawyers hostage.
Michael and the lawyers manage to get out of the situation but the homeless man gets
killed. Michael finds out later that the homeless man had been evicted from a wherehouse
where he was paying rent and Drake & Sweeney was responsible for the eviction. Michael
asked a lawyer, at his firm, if he could see the file about the eviction but the lawyer
refused. Michael started helping Mordecai Green, a lawyer for the homeless, and soon
Michael left Drake & Sweeny and became a laywer for the homeless, a street laywer. But
just before he officially left his firm, he stole the eviction file that he wanted to
see. 
As Micheal copied the file, he began to find out more about the eviction and realized it
was illegal and his ex-firm, Drake & Sweeney, were responsible for wrongful deaths of
some homeless people, who had died after being evicted. When the firm found out about the
missing file, Michael was wanted for Grand Larceny and they were pressing criminal
charges. Micheal filed a suit against his ex-firm, with the help, of Mordecai Green, and
they were representing the evictees. The partners of Drake & Sweeney, knowing that they
were wrong, met with Mordecai Green to settle on an agreement without a jury. They were
offering Mordecai and Michael $770,000 and two-year suspension for Michael for stealing
the file. Mordecai made an offer of $5 million and a one-year suspension for Michael. If
Drake & Sweeney agreed everything would be over without the public hearing about it but
if they disagreed, Mordecai would bring in a jury and was confident of winning and
humiliating Drake & Sweeney.