Many teenagers and adults have come to love Grisham’s work. If you like to read about how life gives you unexpected bumps and red herrings, then this book is for you. I recommend The Street Lawyer to anyone seeking dramatic fiction with twists and turns. As I read about Michael’s becoming a street lawyer to help the homeless who were wrongly convicted as squatters, I realized that there are plenty of jobs for those of us who want to help others. This book helped me to decide that I would like to be a social worker and help the less fortunate. What would happen if you were faced with a life-threatening situation? Would you crumble and fall apart, or would you stand taller and live as if it was your only chance to do anything?

A homeless man with a gun enters the offices of Drake & Sweeney and. Readers will reflect on their own lives after reading this book. Plot Summary for The Street Lawyer by John Grisham Michael Brock is living the exhausting, yet admired, life of a successful attorney for one of the world’s most prosperous and respected law firms when his life is turned upside down by a seemingly random act of violence. Even if you are earning less than minimum wage, it’s better to do the right and just thing than to live selfishly. He shows us through a fictional but lifelike story that sometimes it isn’t always about us. Grisham describes the struggles that happen behind the scenes that we rarely know about. He divorces his wife and quits his high-paying job he becomes a lawyer for the homeless, and maybe even a thief. However, as the story progresses, he starts to lose everything that he thought was important. Michael has the background and material possessions people dream of. John Grisham illustrates how a seemingly perfect life can change in just one afternoon. This is what happens to Michael Brock, a lawyer who is soon to be a partner in an elite firm. What would your reaction be if a homeless man walked into your office and demanded that you do charity work? Then, after you and a couple coworkers are taken hostage, he is shot by the police – and now you have his blood all over you? The odds are you would be pretty shaken up. There was blood on my face and shirt, and a sticky liquid that a doctor later described as cerebrospinal fluid.”

The street lawyer by john grisham