scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. firm with eight hundred#lawvers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three vears away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a conscience. But a violent encounter with a home- less man stopped him cold. Michael sur- vived; his assailant did not. Who was this man? Michael did some digging, and learned that he was a mentally ill veteran who'd been in and out of shelters for many years. Then Michael dug a little deeper, and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake & Sweeney. The fast track derailed; the ladder col-

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