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J. Michael "Mickey" Haller, Junior is a fictional character created by Michael Connelly in the 2005 novel The Lincoln Lawyer. Haller, a Los Angeles-based defense attorney, is the paternal half-brother of Connelly's best-known character, LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. The Mickey Haller series consists of six published novels, with the most recent published in 2020.

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J. Michael Haller, Jr.
Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller
First appearance	The Lincoln Lawyer
Created by	Michael Connelly
Portrayed by	Matthew McConaughey Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
In-universe information
Full name	J. Michael Haller, Junior
Nickname	Mickey, The Lincoln Lawyer
Gender	Male
Occupation	Defense attorney
Affiliation	none
Spouse	Maggie McPherson (divorced) Lorna Taylor (divorced)
Children	Hayley Haller (daughter)
Relatives	J. Michael Haller Sr. (father; deceased) Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch (half-brother) Madeline Bosch (niece)
Nationality	American

A film adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller, was released in the spring of 2011.[1]

A television series adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer from David E. Kelley and A+E Studios, is now streaming on Netflix. Mexican actor Manuel Garcia-Rulfo stars as Mickey Haller, as the series explores the character's Latino heritage.[2]

Character biography

Background

Haller 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 just 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 the Manson girls. He was born from his father's second marriage. He was born five months after his parents wed and they wed less than two months after his father divorced his first wife. Haller's mother was much younger than his father and came from Mexico where she was a famous actress, and in The Fifth Witness, Haller himself says that he looks "more south of the border than north". Little is known of Haller's childhood other than the death of his father (which occurred shortly after the meeting with Bosch) and his inheritance of his father's Colt Woodsman pistol, mentioned in The Lincoln Lawyer. Haller followed in his father's footsteps, 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 the elder Haller prior to his death.

The Mickey Haller novels are narrated almost exclusively in the first-person by Mickey Haller. As such, The Crossing – although it features appearances by Mickey Haller – is a Harry Bosch novel because it is narrated entirely in the third person. By comparison, all but two of the Harry Bosch novels are narrated in the third-person. (Both Lost Light and The Narrows are narrated in the first person by the temporarily retired Harry Bosch.) The second novel featuring Mickey Haller, The Reversal, 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 the first person.

As it stands, there are six novels in The Lincoln Lawyer series. The latest is The Law of Innocence, which is narrated from Haller's point of view.

Personal life

Haller has been married and divorced twice, once to Maggie McPherson and once to Lorna Taylor. McPherson, with whom he has a daughter, Hayley, is a career prosecutor with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, and is nicknamed "McFierce" by defense lawyers. They divorced due to their opposite careers—Haller was defending accused criminals, while McPherson was prosecuting them. They have continued to maintain a close relationship, with periodic reconciliations. Taylor is currently Haller's Case Manager and is married to Haller's current investigator, Dennis "Cisco" Wojciechowski. Haller maintains good relationships with both of his ex-wives and has joint custody of his daughter. In The Brass Verdict, Haller is revealed to have visitation of his daughter on Wednesday nights and alternate weekends. By the events of The Fifth Witness, however, Haller reveals 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, his nickname "Mish" was bestowed upon him by Haller after Haller learned of his "mish-mash" of Mexican-Jewish ancestry. His second investigator, Wojciechowski, was formerly a member of the motorcycle gang The Road Saints, whom Haller frequently represented, and was nicknamed by the gang after the Cisco Kid, an outlaw-adventurer Wild West character created by O. Henry in 1907. Cisco was introduced in The Brass Verdict.

Haller was nicknamed "the Lincoln Lawyer" because of his preference for working out of his Lincoln Town Car instead of in 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 has hired an associate, Jennifer "Bullocks" Aronson, a new graduate of Southwestern Law School, which is located in the former Bullocks Wilshire.

In 9 Dragons, Haller makes a short cameo as Harry Bosch's lawyer; a murder suspect even states that Matthew McConaughey was his alibi. He later suggests that their daughters (Harry's Maddie and Mickey's Hayley) should get together; their daughters would later meet during the events of The Reversal. Later on in the book, a reference is made to the movie adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer starring Matthew McConaughey.

Haller's discomfort with representing the guilty is a constant theme in the series, and he has twice attempted to move to 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 the beginning of The Gods of Guilt, however, it is described that his campaign turned into disaster when the client whom he got acquitted for drunk driving does the same thing again, killing a mother and her daughter, the latter being a classmate of Haller's daughter who then refuses to talk to him for most of the book.

Novel series

Novel	Role	Partner and associates	Client
The Lincoln Lawyer (2005)	Defense Attorney	Lorna Taylor (secretary), Raul Levin (private investigator)	Louis Roulet; accused rapist and attempted murderer
The Brass Verdict (2008)	Defense Attorney	Harry Bosch (police investigation), Lorna Taylor (secretary), Dennis "Cisco" Wojciechowski (private investigator)	Walter Elliot; accused murderer
The Reversal (2010)	Prosecutor	Maggie McPherson (2nd Chair), Harry Bosch (lead investigator)	Special prosecutor of Jason Jessup (accused child-murderer)
The Fifth Witness (2011)	Defense Attorney	Jennifer "Bullocks" Aronson (2nd Chair), Lorna Taylor (secretary), Dennis "Cisco" Wojciechowski (private investigator)	Lisa Trammel; accused murderer
The Gods of Guilt (2013)	Defense Attorney	Jennifer "Bullocks" Aronson (2nd Chair), Lorna Taylor (secretary), Dennis "Cisco" Wojciechowski (private investigator), David "Legal" Siegel (mentor)	Andre LaCosse; accused murderer
The Law of Innocence (2020)	Defense Attorney, Pro Se	Jennifer "Bullocks" Aronson (2nd Chair), Lorna Taylor (secretary), Dennis "Cisco" Wojciechowski (private investigator), Maggie McPherson (2nd Chair), Harry Bosch (investigator)	Mickey Haller; accused murderer

Film

Film	Haller	Role	Partner and associates	Client
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)	Matthew McConaughey	Defense Attorney	Lorna Taylor (secretary) Frank Levin (private investigator) Earl (chauffeur) Val Valenzuela (bail bondsman)	Louis Roulet, accused rapist and murderer Gloria Dayton, prostitute, drug addict Eddie Vogel, biker gang leader Jesus Martinez, accused rapist and murderer (currently incarcerated)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2022)	Manuel Garcia-Rulfo	Defense Attorney	Maggie McPherson (2nd Chair) Lorna Crain (secretary) Dennis "Cisco" Wojciechowski (private investigator) Izzy Letts (driver)	Trevor Elliot; accused murderer

Box office performance

Film	Release date		Box office revenue			Budget	Reference
	Worldwide	United States	Domestic	Foreign	Worldwide
The Lincoln Lawyer	March 18, 2011	March 18, 2011	$58,009,200	$17,000,000	$75,009,200	$40,000,000	[3]

References

На других языках

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- [en] Mickey Haller

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[it] Mickey Haller

L'avvocato Mickey Haller (vero nome Michael Haller) è un personaggio della letteratura creato da Michael Connelly, comparso per la prima volta nel romanzo Avvocato di difesa. Oltre ai romanzi dove è protagonista, compare anche in alcuni libri in cui il protagonista è il fratellastro Harry Bosch.

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