The Street Lawyer - John Grisham

The Street Lawyer is the 9th novel from the award winning legal thriller author John Grisham. The Plot Michael Brock is a promising young lawyer on his way fast up the ladder in law firm Drake & Sweeney. Following a hostage situation where a man known as Mister sermons the hostages (including Michael) on the plight of the homeless and their lack of legal representation, Michael decides to investagate the streets, and comes upon a young boy who has died following his family being wrongly evicted from their home by his law firm. Michael goes covert in finding out the corruption behind the eviction, and seeks retribution for the family ...  Read the complete review

The next book on my trip through my John Grisham shelf of my Bookcase is The Street Lawyer. I know a lot of people will be thinking I only have Grisham books on my shelf and it certainly seems that way to me. His books make up just under half of my collection of fiction works and although one of his recent works didn?t fill me with the same desire to read, the older ones such as this certainly did. Grisham, a former lawyer has made a very good living out of writing Novels, since his debut effort A Time To Kill. Despite his move away from practising law he writes his books on the subject he is familiar with keeping a law theme within almost all of his works to ...  Read the complete review

When it comes to the homeless I have to admit to not being the most sympathetic person around. It is hard to worry about the plight of others when your own wage is just enough to keep you paying the rent and food bills. In fact, for a while I was not earning enough to cover my outgoings and I was slowly falling into debt. It is possible that I could have had an accident or lost my job and cut the income coming in even further - would I have ended up homeless? I like to think that with my close family this would never be the case, but not everyone has these links. Who looks after the poor and helpless when they are unable to do so themselves. John Grisham's 'The ...  Read the complete review

I found this book a very interesting offering from Grisham. It felt quite different to his other books and yet followed a similar format. Obviously it is still about law and lawyers but this book had much less of the glamour/deadline and stress factors and much more of the theory of law. I felt that this was a really mature book from Grisham and though I found it slower and not as exciting as his others, I enjoyed it more. This book is about a lawyer who decides to throw in his job as a highly paid, private firm lawyer and work as a pro-bono lawyer for nowhere near his salary. It is much more altruistic but does allow his readers a different glimpse ...  Read the complete review

John Grisham writes this book in a slower style than his others.It has none of the subtly of 'The Runaway Jury' while it lacks the fast paced plot of 'The Firm'.Although it has none of the action or quick wit of his other books it does show you the other side of corporate America as is not seen in his other novels.I would recommend it to all of John Grisham's current readers as well as anyone who thought his past books too subtle or that they contain too much action.A good read for anyone with the most miniscule interest in iether corporate amercia , law, the plight of the homeless or John Grisham. ...  Read the complete review