Brock takes a confidential file, intending to copy it, but is quickly suspected of its theft. These individuals were tenants and thus entitled to a full legal eviction/contestment process, but a senior Drake & Sweeney partner ignored this information because the firm had a large stake in ensuring the federal project start on time, and thus illegally evicted the tenants in the middle of winter, resulting in the death of a homeless family. Brock discovers that Drake & Sweeney were involved in the sudden approval of a federal building project on the site of a condemned building that had been serving as rent-payment housing for formerly homeless families. Green, along with his abrasive but brilliant staff, work to provide legal help to the most downtrodden members of society. Although he is eventually shot and killed by a police sniper, one of the hostages, an antitrust lawyer named Michael Brock, is concerned by what he has learned and feels compelled to investigate further.īrock finds his way to the 14th Street Legal Clinic, where he meets Mordecai Green, an advocate for the homeless. law firm Drake & Sweeney and takes many of the lawyers hostage while angrily demanding information about some kind of eviction that took place. A homeless man, identifying himself only as "Mister," enters the offices of the powerful Washington D.C.
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