Law and Ally McBeal is some of the best dramatic work involving this genre in television history. He has a lot of experience with law shows.

Kelly involved as executive producer, it makes sense. Like Connelly's other properties that have been adapted into films or television shows, The Lincoln Lawyer has a great grasp of this entire world. This show is a solid law procedural that shows the ins and outs of how lawyers, judges, and the whole legal system works.

She accepts, and now the show has its main characters. As a method of payment, he offers the woman a job as his driver. He jumps in with both feet, and he helps to clear the name of a young Black woman accused of the crime due to circumstantial evidence. One of his cases is a burglary of a woman's necklace. The last piece of the puzzle to get things in order is a diver for his trademark Lincolns that he drives/rides in to do a lot of his work. That means bringing his second wife into the fold along with her boyfriend, a trusty investigator for Mickey. Mickey has to get his feet under him first, though. This case is of the utmost concern to the client, who wants to go to court and clear his good name of these heinous crimes. This is quite the surprise for Mickey, who hasn't practiced law in over a year.Īlong with the practice comes a high-priority case involving the murder of a woman and her lover by the woman's husband, a millionaire game developer. She informs him that a lawyer friend of his was killed, and in his will, left Mickey his entire law practice and all of his clients. Out of the blue, he gets a mysterious phone call to come to the chambers of a high-ranking judge in the L.A. He has also been out of the practice of being a lawyer since the accident. He had gotten into an accident over a year prior and still can't overcome the obstacle of returning to the water. When the series picks up, Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) sits on a beach with a surfboard, too afraid to go in the water. It was initially supposed to be on CBS before the pandemic got the pilot - and the show - canceled and landed on Netflix.

I love that film and the character and Connelly's books, so I was a bit skeptical about the new series. The Lincoln Lawyer was already turned into a film in 2011, starring Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller. One of the biggest is The Lincoln Lawyer. Michael Connelly has created quite the literary empire for himself these days with four different ongoing book series.

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