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		Still, trial lawyers spend the majority of their time outside the courtroom, conducting research, interviewing clients and witnesses, and handling other details in preparation for a trial.
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	Review: The Street Lawyer
		Within two weeks Brock has given up the fast track to become a lawyer for street people: a voice, he is told, for those who don't have one.
		The homeless are close to the streets, to the pavement, the curbs and gutters, the concrete, the litter, the sewer lids and fire hydrants and wastebaskets and bus stops and storefronts.
		They move slowly over familiar terrain, day after day, stopping to talk to each other because time means little, stopping to watch a stalled car in traffic, a new drug dealer on a corner, a strange face on their turf.
	www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/street.html (827 words)

	The Street Lawyer
		Now, most lawyers go on to practice in a pretty dull routine – surrounded by wills and land titles, they spend their days buried in more paper than a recycling centre.
		Unfortunately "The Street Lawyer" is not written with the sort of legitimacy that attracts the passion of the reader.
		After all, they will take offence at the depiction of "street lawyers", particularly when it is written by a multi-millionaire author who hasn't seen the inside of a courtroom for yonks.
	www.law4u.com.au /lil/book_street.html (2016 words)

	Information Directory the street lawyer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A lawyer is a person who has been trained in the law and is qualified to give legal advice and represent others in litigation.
		In the USA a lawyer is commonly referred to as an "attorney".
		The demand for competent lawyers continues to grow, particularly where there is an ongoing demand for legal action, for example in areas such as intellectual property, international law, environmental law, health care, and sexual harassment.
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	Alternative Billing for the "Main Street Lawyer"
		The lawyer cannot give an exact quote when the number of total hours to be expended is unknown to the lawyer, as well as the client.
		The experienced lawyer knows that if an average fee is mentioned, the client will focus on that number as “the fee.” If the lawyer quotes an estimate of $2,000, the lawyer will view a final total billing of $2,165 to be right on target.
		Lawyers know they will treat a client fairly, but they also want to make sure they are not treated unfairly by working many extra hours without additional compensation.
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	Teen Voices Volume 6: Book Review: The Street Lawyer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Street Lawyer by John Grisham, tells the story of 31-year old Michael Brock, a hard-charging associate at a prominent Washington D.C. law firm.
		It is a combination between Grisham's usual style, law suspense, and a new one to him: a gut-wrenching tale of the lives of the homeless.
		The Street Lawyer is a refreshing new style, and a masterpiece on multiple levels.
	teen.apl.org /TeenVoices6/streetlawyer_review.htm (493 words)

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		The lawyer for a detainee at the US military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, said that his hunger-striking client was in "imminent danger" of death or serious organ damage despite being force-fed.
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	Mystery-B Discusses: The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
		Street Lawyer is into its second month on the bestseller list, and is probably headed for the movie screen.
		The main character in the novel, Michael Brock, is not as deep and rounded a character as the lawyer in To Kill a Mockingbird.
		Her lawyer character Barbara Holloway was introduced in a cross-genre legal suspense novel with sf complications, and has carried on.
	www.anitra.net /books/mystery-b/lawyer.html (2677 words)

	heat death of the universe: John Grisham's "The Street Lawyer" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In The Street Lawyer, the protagonist is a high powered lawyer (surprise!) who undergoes an experience that causes him to reject his pursuit of money, prestige, power, etc. Instead, he becomes a low-paid advocate for the homeless.
		Toward the beginning of his change of heart, the protagonist is afraid of the homeless and of the bad parts of D.C. As he gains more experience with the homeless, however, he begins to see them as individuals and loses his fear.
		The flaw in the street lawyer, was it lacked a main emotion, there was not a stressed drama, or a extreme tenstion, which has created some of the best writtings we have ever seen, in example the book "To Kill A Mockingbird", there was a central issue of race, and equalness throughout the book.
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	The Street Lawyer
		JOHN GRISHAM’S ninth novel, The Street Lawyer, follows the basic formula of his other bestsellers, taking a jaded lawyer disillusioned with the American system of justice and--through a series of dire and not always believable events--leading him back to his original idealism through the true promise of those same institutions.
		It's no coincidence that The Street Lawyer, which turns on money, race and power, is set in Washington, D.C. That is not to say the novel is introspective.
		In The Street Lawyer, the question is not who is guilty or whether someone is guilty but how to prove it.
	www.stewart-onan.com /html/_the_street_lawyer_.html (1282 words)

	Mystery Guide - The Street Lawyer by John Grisham (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brock begins the book as a practicing anti-trust lawyer, on the fast track to partnership and a million-dollar annual salary in the nation's fifth-largest law firm.
		He also is given a hint that the eviction was illegal, and then discovers that some particularly sympathetic evictees subsequently died on the streets in midwinter.
		His personal struggle with guilt leads him into the streets to become an advocate for the homeless citizens of our nation's capital, and to take on the very powerful firm that recently owned him.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkGrishamLawyer.html (805 words)

	'The Street Lawyer' by John Grisham
		The lawyer is literally and figuratively covered in Mister's blood and his attempts to find out what motivated the man leads him to a world of soup kitchens and squatters and homeless shelters and a legal clinic where law is practiced but there are no marble foyers or million-dollar salaries.
		As usual, the characters in "The Street Lawyer" are sketched in the broadest of strokes.
		He did research in D.C., where he met lawyers and poor people and - hauntingly - a mother with three young children who provided the inspiration for a fragile family in the book.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19970215review1.asp (890 words)

	CNN - Books: Reviews -"The Street Lawyer" - Feb. 11, 1998
		In "The Street Lawyer," that finger-pointing advocacy can often turn scenes into civics lessons and make an awful lot of dialogue read like op-ed screeds.
		Everything happens with astonishing speed in "The Street Lawyer." In just 32 days, lawyer Michael Brock is taken hostage, changes careers, ends his soured marriage, swipes a file of sensitive documents, nearly gets killed in a car crash, is arrested and beaten up, tracks down a reluctant witness, and even finds a girlfriend.
		And with millions of copies of "The Street Lawyer" certain to be read, that's not out of the question.
	www.cnn.com /books/reviews/9802/11 (306 words)

	THE STREET LAWYER & THE RUNAWAY JURY
		In his current best seller, The Street Lawyer, Grisham admits that before writing this book he had not worried too much about the plight of the homeless until he found his way to a Washington DC Legal Clinic for the Homeless, which raised his level of consciousness.
		Michael Brock, a Yale Law School graduate and rising star in Drake and Sweeney, a Washington, DC law firm with 800 lawyers, was taken hostage on his way to his sixth floor office by a street bum who was riding the elevator with him.
		As a lawyer for the homeless, he represents the street people, such as DeVon Hardy, who have been evicted as squatters, but in fact were paying tenants.
	www.delmeyer.net /bkrev798.htm (1179 words)

	Notes: The Street Lawyer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Grisham’s The Street Lawyer is little more than an advocate for the homeless masquerading as a legal thriller — or maybe it’s a legal thriller hidden behind the mask of homeless advocacy.
		This story is about a lawyer who is almost killed by a homeless man and then quits a very high paying job at a huge law firm in D.C. to almost go broke helping the homeless.
		Oh, I almost forgot: he uncovers a somewhat sinister plot by his former employer, although a bad lawyer or two were the only ones who knew about it, so it’s not as if a huge conspiracy existed.
	www.garretwilson.com /books/streetlawyer.html (480 words)

	The Street Lawyer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Street Lawyer is a legal/suspense novel, the ninth such work written by (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American author (additional info and facts about John Grisham) John Grisham.
		After a near-disastrous incident inside the halls of D. & S., Brock, much to the chagrin of his friends, family, and supervisors, begins to re-evaluate his priorities in life.
		Michael Brock - the protagonist; wealthy lawyer at the firm Drake & Sweeney
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_street_lawyer.htm (247 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE STREET LAWYER by John Grisham
		The lawyers on all eight floors worked for my firm at hourly rates that still seemed obscene to me, even after seven years.
		Madam Devier was standing behind her desk, petrified, staring into the barrel of an awfully long handgun held by our pal the street bum.
		Since I was the first one to come to her aid, he politely aimed it at me, and I too became rigid.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0440225701-excerpt.asp (1638 words)

	The Street Lawyer
		Michael and the lawyers manage to get out of the situation but the homeless man gets killed.
		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.
	jgrisham1.tripod.com /lawyer.htm (311 words)

	THE STREET LAWYER - John Grisham (audiobook) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although John Grisham's The Street Lawyer is not as thrilling as his other legal thrillers, it's better than most of his recent books.
		After the lawyers are rescued when the homeless man is shot, Drake and Sweeney associate Michael Brock wants to know what led the man over the edge.
		I wouldn't classify The Street Lawyer as a true legal thriller, but I hope Grisham continues to write more novels that entertain and make us think.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: The Street Lawyer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This audio version of John Grisham's blockbuster The Street Lawyer is narrated by Michael Beck (The Golden Seal, Xanadu), whose portrayal of the similarly named Michael Brock, with his squeaky-clean voice and crisp annunciation, is in perfect pitch with the corporate attorney's Ivy League image.
		Mihael Brock is a star lawyer on the fast track to partnership in one of the Nation's top law firms.
		The Street Lawyer is about a young lawyer, who comes close to death when a homeless man holds him hostage, and his sudden changes of lifestyle and thinking.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0440225701 (1194 words)

	The Street Lawyer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This time the lord of legal thrillers dives deep into the world of the homeless, particularly their barely audible legal voice in a world dominated by large, all-powerful law firms.
		The violent outcome of the hostage situation triggers an abrupt soul-searching for the young lawyer, and Hardy's mysterious question continues to haunt him.
		In the The Street Lawyer, Grisham once again defends the voiceless and powerless.
	www.familyhaven.com /bookstore/mystery/0553502123AMUS2552.html (399 words)

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		I picked up The Street Lawyer to take on a trip with me. My thoughts are that it is difficult to dislike a John Grisham book, since I have enjoyed many of his books.
		The main character is Mike Block, a lawyer in a high-class firm.
		There’s no doubt Grisham is a superb author, but in comparison to his other books, The Street Lawyer is so far from the types of writing that has me clinging to every word.
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	The_Street_Lawyer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Michael Brock was a lawyer on the fast track to a rich partnership in a Washington, DC law firm when circumstances turned him toward a career as a street lawyer.
		The fl street attorney, Mordecai Green, was Brock's tutor.
		I was reminded again of the danger of the streets, and some of the tragedies.
	www.moment-ministries.peak.org /book_reviews/The_Street_Lawyer.htm (576 words)

	The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
		His latest blockbuster to see paperback is The Street Lawyer, a wickedly entertaining roller-coaster ride that'll keep the avid thrill-seeker wide-eyed and attentive all night long.
		Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michael is leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker once lived--and where society's powerless need an advocate for justice.
		Frenetically paced, entertaining....Grisham seems more determined than ever to try to use his clout to effect social change...And if there's any justice, The Street Lawyer will be his biggest hit yet.
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		Comment: John Grisham is one of my favorite writers to date and The street Lawyer really does provide a good dose of reality for alot of people.
		Although it had an awesome theme to it and very great charcters it didn't have court room drama like i was expecting, especially since its John Grisham, and there were some questions that were yet to be answered.
		Grisham presents a fantasy world in which the citizens of DC rally around a homeless woman and our street lawyer changes the world for the better.
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	The Street Lawyer by Grisham, John (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The expected powerhouse opening involves the hostage-taking--by an armed, homeless man who calls himself Mister--of nine attorneys of a huge law firm headquartered in D.C. Among the nine is narrator Michael Brock, an antitrust lawyer who receives a faceful of blood when a police sniper blows away Mister's head.
		When a family he meets there dies on the street, and turns out to have been among the evictees, Michael quits his job, goes to work for Green and, using as evidence a file he steals from the firm, aims to sue his former employer on behalf of the evictees.
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	CNN - Books: "The Street Lawyer" by John Grisham - Mar. 6, 1998
		He was a street bum at the moment, but there had been better days.
		Because I'm a lawyer and live by the clock, I checked my watch so that whatever happened could be duly recorded, if we somehow managed to survive.
		As the minutes dragged on, I caught myself wondering how in the world the other four hundred lawyers in the building would manage to bill while waiting for the hostage crisis to end.
	www.cnn.com /books/beginnings/9803/06 (2685 words)

	TheBookHaven.net - The Street Lawyer - John Grisham
		Michael develops an affection for a particular homeless boy, who later dies on the streets.
		Michael, along with homeless advocate and lawyer Mordecai Green, are working against the clock to build a case against Drake and Sweeney and the others responsible for the eviction.
		In a swift act of conscience, he goes from successful attorney to poorly-paid lawyer for those who can least afford the services.
	thebookhaven.homestead.com /Z_Street_Lawyer.html (593 words)

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