The Street Lawyer - John Grisham Reviews

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 ...

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 ...

PLIGHT OF HOMELESS !! DeVon Hardy, we know this name after his death, before his death he is just mister. Mister is the guy who takes the elevator at Drake and Sweeney 8 floors building with Michael Brock in downtown Washington, Drake and Sweeney is the law firm, they have 400 Lawyers working in that building in ...

Wow...what a fantastic book! My first ever John Grisham book, and it was incredible. It was so good that I actually went on ebay the day after I finished it and bought 10 more Grisham books. I originally randomly picked up this book at my school from one of my teachers and started to read it because I had nothing else. I was only able to ...

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 ...

Instead of taking the first 20 to 50 pages or so to introduce the characters Grisham takes us right into the action. The scene: a homeless man with a grudge takes an entire law office hostage. The title character, Michael Brock is a successful young lawyer in DC. He is moving up the career ladder, working long hours to the detriment of ...

The Street Lawyer You have seen it before, a promising lawyer, making it big in a Washington firm. Life is good, the money superb and the future looks rosy. It was just an ordinary day at the office for Michael Brock walked into the building that morning.... or so he thought....... but then a stranger walks in and the events that ...

In the past near all of John Grisham's books have concentrated in the arena of fast paced legal drama, with the lawyers having huge salaries and bigger egos. In the Street Lawyer however we are reminded that there is a different side of the legal system. Not all lawyers work for $300 dollars an hour, drive BMWs and live in huge apartments in ...

The Street Lawyer is a bit different from the usual Grisham fare. Michael Brock, the main character, has a vagrant come into his offices and hold some of the lawyers in an office. Michael looks into the grievance the vagrant had and discovers that his firm were behind him getting evicted. Michael starts to help the homeless and risks ...

This book is refreshing and really good, even by John Grisham's high standards. He has tried something a bit different but it is still as gripping and still holds you in suspence. This book is about a big shot lawyer who suddenly decides to do some good will work. He leaves the big firm he is in and joins a very small firm where he hardly gets ...

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 ...

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 tells the story of a lawyer named Robert Brock who works in a corporate law firm. He is on the fast-track for partnership and is looking at earning serious money in the near future. However, his life changes drastically when a gun toting homeless man holds Brock and some fellow lawyers hostage in their office. Escaping with his ...