Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake amp Sweeneya giant D. C. firm with 800 lawyers. The money was good and getting better apartners... » 

Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake amp Sweeneya giant D. C. firm with 800 lawyers. The money was good and getting better apartnership was three years away. He was a rising star with no time to wasteno time to stop no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers notime to walk around them on the sidewalk and no time for a conscience. But aviolent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived hisassailant did not. Who was this homeless man? Michael did some digging andlearned that he was a mentally ill veteran whod been in and out of sheltersfor twenty years. Then Michael dug a little deeper and found a dirty secretand the secret involved Drake amp Sweeney. The fast track derailed and theladder collapsed. Michael bolted from the firm and took a top secret file withhim. He landed in the streets a poverty lawyer a street lawyer an advocatefor the homeless and a thief. «