The street Lawyer takes place in the city of Washington D.C.  Primarily within the downtown and anyplace where the homeless are found.  From the time you start the book to the time you finish is about one month of events that has taken place inside this book.  The book is put into the present tense and takes place around this time frame that we are in right now.  The two Law firms that are mentioned in this book are fictional along with it’s characters.  Although the events that take place are possible in today’s world dis spite being fictional. All of events though they seem real are completely fictional and did not happen.  If something like this did happen like in the book the press would always be all over it.  The characters of The Street Lawyer are practical yet not true and the exact happenings would probably not be the same in reality.  Is I was asked if the book could happen in today’s life I would answer, yes.  The events, people, and places are not outside anything that is not able to be achieved today.

Micheal Brock starts out as a fairly new lawyer on the fast track to being a partner in Drake & Sweeney.  In the middle of a normal day an unexpected turn of events happen which shock Micheal into not thinking straight.  Later on he tries to find out the motives of Mister (the homeless man who was shot) and why he would come into this firm.  Through his investigation he later finds out a secret of Drake & Sweeney that caused the eviction of 14 homeless people. Later on four of the members of this eviction died from freezing in the cold.  This would not have happened if the eviction had not taken place.  Micheal gets into a volunteer group that changes his motives and opens him up to the “light”. He sees where he should be in the world.  As he goes along in this new area of his life he is changed.  The change that happens is considered foolish and physic by his fellow lawyers of Drake & Sweeney.  He decides to drop out of the big firm lawyer business and go to the tiny 14th street legal clinic in defense of the homeless people.  He ends up being the most wanted enemy of Drake & Sweeney without even being more then a month for when he quit.  This unfortunate, but very exciting turn of events for Micheal gave him the life that he always wanted.