# The Street Lawyer

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- Book: [The Street Lawyer](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-grisham/the-street-lawyer) ([The Street Lawyer.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-grisham/the-street-lawyer.md))
- Authors: [John Grisham](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-grisham)
- Publisher: cornerstone_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 6 h 5 min
- Narrated by: Michael Beck
- ISBN: 978-18-4345-226-3
- Published: 2005-09-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 6 h 5 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D. C. firm with 800 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 to walk around them on the sidewalk. 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 homeless man? Michael did some digging and learned that he was a mentally ill veteran who'd been in and out of shelters for twenty 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, a poverty lawyer, a street lawyer, an advocate for the homeless. And a thief. © John Grisham 1998 (P) Penguin Audio 2005