The street lawyer

The main character in this book is Michael Brock, a lawyer working for
Drake & Sweeney. One day a homeless man comes into the firm and
holds Michael and other lawyers hostage. Michael and the lawyers manage
to get out of the situation but the homeless man gets killed. Michael
finds out later that the homeless man had been evicted from a
wherehouse where he was paying rent and Drake & Sweeney was
responsible for the eviction. Michael asked a lawyer, at his firm, if
he could see the file about the eviction but the lawyer refused.
Michael started helping Mordecai Green, a lawyer for the homeless, and
soon Michael left Drake & Sweeny and became a laywer for the
homeless, a street laywer. But just before he officially left his firm,
he stole the eviction file that he wanted to see.

As Micheal copied the file, he began to find out more about the
eviction and realized it was illegal and his ex-firm, Drake &
Sweeney, were responsible for wrongful deaths of some homeless people,
who had died after being evicted. When the firm found out about the
missing file, Michael was wanted for Grand Larceny and they were
pressing criminal charges. Micheal filed a suit against his ex-firm,
with the help, of Mordecai Green, and they were representing the
evictees. The partners of Drake & Sweeney, knowing that they were
wrong, met with Mordecai Green to settle on an agreement without a
jury. They were offering Mordecai and Michael $770,000 and two-year
suspension for Michael for stealing the file. Mordecai made an offer of
$5 million and a one-year suspension for Michael. If Drake &
Sweeney agreed everything would be over without the public hearing
about it but if they disagreed, Mordecai would bring in a jury and was
confident of winning and humiliating Drake & Sweeney.