The title “The Street Lawyer” is true to what happens in the book.  Micheal literary becomes a street lawyer, working for almost minimum wage and enduring the streets of New York.  The title is considered an oxymoron in the sense that you would not think of a lawyer to be on the streets.  A lawyer would be usually in a nice house spending the big bucks as we view it now of days.  Why a lawyer would lower himself to the standards of little pay and dealing with people who have almost no voice in the world is almost unheard of.  That is what gives significance to the title.  How Micheal comes from his big time job and works for the homeless and the people with no money.  He gives voice to the homeless and ends up giving more then a voice, but a chance to become clean and sober again.  Through this street legal clinic he is able to create a way to get the homeless off the streets by using the Drake & Sweeney lawyers.  The title also symbolizes the sacrifice that Micheal makes to serve the homeless.  He sacrifices his big time job, his car, and most of his life for these people, not something you would normally see in a big time lawyer.