1. Predict what the future has in store for Michael.  Will he stay with the 14th Street Clinic?  Will the Clinic change in anyway?  What about his relationship status?  Will he be successful with Ruby?

These articles are closely related to the book, The Street Lawyer. Homeless people are being oppressed, in both examples. They seem to be forgotten by people and the government doesn't seem to care about them. In the first document it tells how the homeless have to pay  the paper for their newspaper. They're trying to reach out to the people, they want to be heard. In the paper they're able to tell their stories such as struggling with addiction. This is similar to The Street Lawyer. In the book the homeless people are also allowed to tell their stories to Megan and Michael at their services. Now in the second article it talks about an organization that builds homes for the homeless. An $11 million dollar building is now a home to  former homeless people, which is a great feeling for the homeless community. They finally have a place of their own. The building has 65 furnished rooms, "Chronically Homeless" people are allowed to stay there forever.It is not just "transitional" housing. For example both Mister and the Burton's are examples of chronically homeless people that would be allowed to live there. 
   

  Some other similarities are that they're both fighting to help the same group of people, the homeless. Homeless people didn't have a voice, so they didn't get recognized. Homeless in Cleveland never had a voice until  The Cleveland Chronicles began. People can now buy the newspaper for under $1.50. The homeless can be paid from the purchases of the newspaper. This organization gave the homeless money and a start at a job. Michael also gave homeless people a voice. He was their lawyer and spoke for them when they were in need. Megan also helped the homeless be recognized by counseling and group meeting so they can talk about their problems.


  These articles are different from the book because they gave different types of help to the homeless. In the book, Michael didn't give them money or a home, he gave them justice. One way that Michael gave them justice by bringing a legal case against  Drake & Sweeney. By winning this case Michael got a cash settlement for these homeless victims.  "Housing First" article gave them a home forever, not temporary. 


My Predictions For Michael

• Michael's going to buy a new bed. Because I think he's done sleeping on the floor.
• Michael is going to buy a new car, because infamous car accident.
• Michael and Arthur Jacobs are going to be business partners and be golf buddies.
• Claire and Michael's divorce will be finalized for irreconcilable differences. 
• Claire remarries a partner at a competing law firm.
• Megan and Michael continue to date.
• Michael continues to work at The 14th Street Legal Clinic.
• Michael decides his beard is itchy and shaves it all off.
• The Clinic highers more people and expands.
• Ruby gets clean and gets her son back.
• Mordecai invested in the company and continues to work there.
• Warner was skiing and fell off a cliff. 

             

ER Blog

1. How do Michael's first few days at the 14th Street Legal Clinic compare to those at Drake & Sweeney?

Michael's first few days at the 14th Street Legal Clinic wasn't as he expected it to be. His orientation lasted about 30 minutes, it took him about the same time it took him to go from the Clinic to the Samaritan House. Michael wore the worst attire in my opinion, he had jeans, navy blazer, a white shirt and tie, with old Nike tennis shoes and white socks. He also didn't shave. In the car, Mordecai told Michael the thirds of the clientele in the orientation. Michael found out that there will all types of people there including employed, families with kids, mentally disabled, veterans, and about a third of those are eligible of low-income housing receive it. At the legal clinic Michael dealt with drugs abusers. Alcoholics were more common there. 

Drake and Sweeney is a big lawyer firm business. At the beginning of the story, Michael worked there before Mister came up there. All of the lawyers were making at least 500k a year. They weren't doing anything for the poor and homeless community. Michael worked in a nice, wealthy, and clean building. The Clinic was a dump. Michael  worked with people who are just like him, rich and careless. 

But at the same time, homeless people would be in the building trying to keep warm. The staff would call security or the police whenever there was a homeless man in there. At that time Michael didn't care for them. Now he's fighting for their rights and trying to keep them in touch with society.

At the end of chapter 16 Michael states that both he and Claire have lost.  Support or refute this statement.

1.At the end of chapter 16, Michael moved out of his home and is most likely going to divorce Claire. Michael and Claire's relationship ending is not a loss. They're better off without each other. They argued a lot about his decisions about leaving the law firm and taking a pay cut, to help the homeless. 

2.Michael stole a file from a big business containing information about the illegal evictions on the poor and homeless.  I think this was justified. He had to expose the corrupt business. It was for a noble cause and if he didn't do it how else would they get any justice.


3. Hector Palma is the paralegal for Braedan Chance. Hector gave Michael the keys to the office and the cabinet, so he can get the files.  Braedan was responsible for the evictions of the poor.

4. Michael just wants to help the poor,  but the rich don't help usually help. That's what's different, people  aren't used to people caring about the poor. He's labeled like that because of this.

5. Michael's life is actually becoming good. You don't have to be rich to live a good life. Michael didn't care at all for the poor. Now he's a "street lawyer". Exposing the corruption of big businesses.

Street Lawyer- Questions

1. Why do you suppose Michael believes Mister wasn't going to kill the lawyer?

Mister wasn't trying to kill the lawyers. Mister was just trying to get his point across. That's why he shot up at the ceiling. It wasn't meant to kill them. If Mister came in there without the gun, no one would be really scared. They'd call security. Mister wanted them to feel guilty that they didn't give a care in the world about the homeless people. Mister asked them questions about how much they gave to the homeless community. All of them lied. Then he asked them how much money they made last year. It was literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. They lawyers made enough money to buy the homeless shelter and make it better. At the shelter, all they had were scraps, soups and breads. Mister talked in a calm and relaxed, and that's an indication that he was really going to shoot them.  The lawyers kept saying that they were going to die but they weren't. That's all that they cared about. Mister ordered food from the shelter. He told police to bring it up to the room, so they can eat the soup together. 

3. Rich and poor people. Rich people and poor people. The rich lawyers and Mister were in the room together. The rich are made to look like they don't care. It's kind of true. The poor are made to be helpless and forgotten. It's kind of true. The Vietnam Veterans were treated like crap when they got home. The rich are snobby, careless, and only likes be around people who have the same financial status as them.