The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller)

About The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller)

Mickey Haller is a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who works out of the back seat of a chauffeured Lincoln Town Car, hustling between courthouses from Van Nuys to Compton. The son of a famous defense lawyer he barely knew — and half-brother, as the series reveals, of LAPD detective Harry Bosch — Haller is a self-described legal gunslinger: cynical about the system, devoted to working its angles, and haunted by the defense attorney's nightmare of failing to recognize a truly innocent client. Around him Michael Connelly assembles a repertory cast: case manager (and first ex-wife) Lorna, investigator Cisco, prosecutor and second ex-wife Maggie "McFierce" McPherson, driver-turned-associate Izzy, and daughter Hayley.

The Lincoln Lawyer (2005) — filmed with Matthew McConaughey and reborn as a hit Netflix series — set the template: a lucrative "franchise" client whose case turns lethal, courtroom sequences of chess-match precision, and a moral reckoning underneath the showmanship. The sequels push Haller everywhere a defense lawyer can go: prosecuting for once in The Reversal, defending himself from a jail cell in The Law of Innocence, working innocence-project exonerations with Bosch in Resurrection Walk, and, in The Proving Ground (2025), taking a landmark civil case against an artificial-intelligence company. Alongside the Bosch books, the Haller series forms the courtroom half of Connelly's interlocked Los Angeles — and some of the best legal thrillers written this century.