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29-487: Mickey Haller , who has become increasingly frustrated in his role as a defense lawyer, agrees to undertake the prosecution role on behalf of the city of Los Angeles, in the retrial of a convicted kidnapper and killer that had been granted as a result of new DNA evidence. His one condition before accepting the task is that he is permitted to choose his own team; he chooses his ex-wife Maggie McPherson as his co-prosecutor, and his half-brother Harry Bosch as his investigator from

58-445: A Los Angeles-based defense attorney , is the younger paternal half-brother of Connelly's best-known character, LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch . The Mickey Haller series currently consists of seven published novels. A film adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) starred Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller. A television series adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer from David E. Kelley , Ted Humphrey , and A+E Studios,

87-536: A drug addict living off a prostitute's earnings but has disappeared, presumably to testify against Sarah. Locating Roman's current prostitute Sonia Reyes, Bosch persuades her to enter the courtroom at a crucial moment in Roman's testimony, which causes Roman to alter his testimony and effectively destroys the defense case. While anticipating a plea bargain offer from the defense team during a lunch break, Bosch and Haller instead learn that Jessup entered Royce's offices with

116-496: A gun and killed Royce, two of his legal team and a policeman who followed him. Jessup is now at large, but the police surround and kill him at a hideout under the Santa Monica pier that had been discovered by Bosch as a result of the police surveillance activities. Mickey Haller J. Michael "Mickey" Haller, Junior is a fictional character created by Michael Connelly in his 2005 novel The Lincoln Lawyer . Haller,

145-454: A screenwriter, writing screenplays for various studios. His work as a television writer began with the science fiction/action comedy series Now and Again in 1999. Early in his career, he wrote for several series, including the short-lived horror anthology Night Visions and the medical drama Dr. Vegas . He also wrote the teleplay and co-wrote the story for the television movie thriller The Triangle in 2001. In 2006 Humphrey joined

174-433: A short cameo as Harry Bosch's lawyer. He later suggests that their daughters (Mickey's Hayley and Harry's Maddie) should get together. They later meet during the events of The Reversal . The book also refers to the movie adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer starring Matthew McConaughey . Haller has moral qualms about representing the guilty, and his concerns are a constant theme in the series. Twice he attempted to move to

203-438: A tow truck driver, as the man who snatched Melissa from the garden. The evidence against Jessup also includes strands of Melissa's hair, found in the seat of his truck. Thus, her testimony is essential for establishing the quick police focus on Jessup. However, DNA evidence subsequently showed that semen stains found on the dress Melissa was wearing, which could not be definitely matched at the time, came not from Jessup, but from

232-525: Is The Law of Innocence (2020), which is narrated from Haller's point of view. In 2023, a seventh was published, titled Resurrection Walk , the second crossover novel in the series where some chapters focus on Bosch. Haller has been married and divorced twice. He was first married to Maggie McPherson and they have a daughter Hayley. McPherson is a career prosecutor with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, and

261-540: Is best known for his work on the CBS series The Good Wife , and for being the co-creator and showrunner of the Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer. The Good Wife was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series in 2010, as well as the 2010 and 2011 Emmy Award for Best Drama Series. In 2011, he was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Drama Writing for his script for

290-577: Is nicknamed "McFierce" by defense lawyers. They divorced due to their opposite careers—Haller was defending accused criminals, while McPherson was prosecuting them. They continue to maintain a close relationship, with periodic reconciliations. Haller next married Lorna Taylor. She became Haller's Case Manager. She married again, to Haller's investigator, Dennis "Cisco" Wojciechowski. Haller maintains good relationships with both of his ex-wives and has joint custody of his daughter, who grew up speaking Spanish as well as English. In The Brass Verdict , Haller

319-539: Is revealed to have visitation of his daughter on Wednesday nights and alternate weekends. By the events of The Fifth Witness , however, Haller says that is only the "official arrangement" and he sees his daughter far more frequently. During the series Haller has used two private investigators for his trials. The first, Raul "Mish" Levin, was murdered during the events of The Lincoln Lawyer . Haller had nicknamed him "Mish" after learning of his "mish-mash" of Mexican-Jewish ancestry. His second investigator, Wojciechowski,

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348-507: Is significantly younger than his half-brother, Bosch. When Bosch first met his father, Michael Haller Sr., Bosch was an adult but Mickey was only five years old. (However, in chapter 19 of The Black Ice , Bosch mentions there was one unnamed half-brother. Bosch notes that the half-brother is a defense attorney and “probably born a few years ahead of Bosch”.) The elder Michael Haller was one of Los Angeles' premier criminal defense attorneys and his clients included mobster Mickey Cohen and one of

377-509: Is soon seen visiting various mountain trails in the Mulholland area, and on one occasion parks his car outside Bosch's house at night. Bosch and Haller, both concerned for their own teenage daughters' safety, develop a theory that Jessup was a serial killer but are unable to investigate fully for fear of blowing the police's cover. Legal procedures require that the jury is kept ignorant of Jessup's post-conviction history. Testimony given in

406-513: The Manson girls . J. Michael Haller Jr. was born from his father's second marriage. His parents wed less than two months after his father divorced his first wife, and the Haller son was born five months later, into a family of wealth. Haller's mother was much younger than his father and was from Mexico, where she was a famous actress. In The Fifth Witness , Haller says that he looks "more south of

435-480: The LAPD. The prosecution case rests largely on the testimony of Sarah Gleason, the elder sister of the victim, Melissa Landy. The body of 12-year-old Melissa was discovered in 1986, discarded in a dumpster, only a few hours after she was reported missing. Unbeknownst to the killer, her older sister Sarah had been hiding in the garden and had witnessed her abduction. On the day of the murder, she identified Jason Jessup,

464-460: The beginning of The Gods of Guilt , however, it is revealed that his campaign turned into disaster when the client whom he got acquitted for drunk driving, gets drunk, drives, and kills a mother and her daughter. The girl was a classmate of Haller's daughter and she blames her father for the death, refusing to talk to him for most of the book. Ted Humphrey Ted Humphrey is an American television and film writer, producer and director. He

493-603: The border than north". Little is known of Haller's childhood other than his father died when the boy was young (shortly after the meeting with Bosch) and his inheritance of his father's Colt Woodsman pistol, mentioned in The Lincoln Lawyer (2005), the first of the series. Haller grew up with his mother and was bilingual. He followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a defense attorney. Most of Haller's knowledge of his father comes from law books he has read and stories from judges and other lawyers who had worked with

522-424: The elder Haller prior to his death. The Mickey Haller novels are narrated almost exclusively in the first-person by Mickey Haller. The second novel featuring Mickey Haller, The Reversal (2010), could be considered a crossover novel, as it contains both Harry Bosch-centered chapters, narrated in the third person (including third-person scenes featuring Mickey Haller) and Mickey Haller-centered chapters, narrated in

551-732: The episode "Boom ," and was honored with the Voices of Courage and Conscience Award from the Muslim Public Affairs Council for the same script. The Good Wife also earned a Peabody Award and twice received the American Film Institute’s Award for Excellence in Film and Television. After graduating from Georgetown University and the University of Virginia School of Law , Humphrey began his career as

580-587: The first person. All but two of the Harry Bosch novels are narrated in the third-person. (Both Lost Light (2003) and The Narrows (2004) are narrated in the first person by the temporarily retired Harry Bosch.) Although The Crossing (2015) features appearances by Mickey Haller, it is classified as a Harry Bosch novel because it is narrated entirely in the third person. As of 2024, there are seven novels in The Lincoln Lawyer series. The sixth

609-411: The girls' stepfather. Jessup's defense counsel, "Clever Clive" Royce, mounts a media campaign in his client's favour, and it becomes clear that his main motivation is obtaining a sizable compensation payout from the state. Haller's response is to allow bail and have Jessup tailed by the police in the hope that he will return to his old ways and provide additional support for the prosecution case. Jessup

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638-416: The original trial, where the witness is no longer available because of death or infirmity, has to be read aloud to the jury by Harry Bosch, but the key to the case is still Sarah Gleason's testimony. During direct examination, Sarah admits that the dress Melissa was wearing was hers and that her stepfather was raping her, which accounted for the semen stains. The defense focuses on presenting the stepfather as

667-406: The prosecution side. In The Reversal , Haller is appointed as a special prosecutor to overturn the exoneration of Jason Jessup, a convicted child-murderer who was freed after DNA evidence cleared him of wrongdoing. Haller teams up with McPherson and Bosch to retry Jessup. At the end of The Fifth Witness , Haller files to run for Los Angeles County district attorney, with McPherson's support. At

696-445: The real killer and Jessup as the victim of the family's lies. To undermine Sarah's testimony, because of her history of drug use and prostitution in the years since her sister's murder (though she has now been rehabilitated), Haller concludes that "Clever Clive" must have a witness who will claim that Sarah had told a different story during her "lost years." Bosch then traces Sarah's then-lover, Eddie Roman, and finds that he has remained

725-473: The staff of the drama series The Nine, and in 2007 he became a producer and writer for the CBS legal drama Shark . He also wrote and produced for the action drama series The Unit . In 2009, Humphrey wrote the feature film " The Code ," which was released in the United States under the title " Thick as Thieves ". The film starred Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas . Also in 2009, he joined

754-492: The staff of the new legal drama The Good Wife , and would go on to produce 135 episodes of the series, writing or co-writing 19 of them. He also directed the season six episode " The Deconstruction." Humphrey was executive producer/showrunner of the 2016 Syfy series Incorporated and created the 2017 CBS drama Wisdom of the Crowd . He then developed for television and serves as Executive Producer and Showrunner of

783-556: Was formerly a member of the motorcycle gang The Road Saints, whom Haller frequently represented. The gang had nicknamed him after the Cisco Kid , an outlaw-adventurer Wild West character created by O. Henry in 1907. Cisco was introduced in The Brass Verdict . Following Bosch's retirement, Haller has also engaged the services of his half-brother during times when Cisco was injured or otherwise incapable of working. Haller

812-545: Was nicknamed "the Lincoln Lawyer" because of his preference for working out of his Lincoln Town Car instead of an office. However, during The Fifth Witness , Haller temporarily rents an office on a one-year lease. With the influx in foreclosure clients at that time, Haller hired an associate, Jennifer "Bullocks" Aronson, a new graduate of Southwestern Law School . (This is located in the former department store Bullocks Wilshire .) In Nine Dragons , Haller makes

841-457: Was released on Netflix in September 2022. The first season is based on the second book in the series, though contains elements of the first book, while a second season based on the fourth book and containing those same elements of the first was released in 2023. Mexican actor Manuel Garcia-Rulfo stars as Mickey Haller, as the series explores the character's maternal Latino heritage. Haller

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