Stitching Up Mickey Haller

We’re now less than a week out from the February 5 Netflix premiere of The Lincoln Lawyer, Season 4. Its 10 episodes will be based on Michael Connelly’s 2020 novel The Law of Innocence, and find Los Angeles defense attorney Mickey Haller (played by Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) on trial for a murder he didn’t commit. As he faces off against a pertinacious district attorney, Dana Berg (Constance Zimmer), he and his friends struggle to prove his his hands clean of the crime.

“It’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to him, pretty much,” series co-creator Ted Humphrey told TV Fanatic. “Not just from the obvious legal or professional perspective of facing these charges—that would be terrible for anybody—but also from a personal and family perspective.” While Haller is good at weathering legal dangers on behalf of his clients, he’s less prepared to protect his teenage daughter, Hayley (Krista Warner), from the fallout surrounding his own prosecution. “He sees what it does to his daughter,” explains Humphrey, “and that devastates him. Any parent can relate to having to keep a brave face for your child when you’re facing a situation like that. It’s dire.”

While Garcia-Rulfo is obviously the headline star of this show, the cast also features Neve Campbell, Becki Newton, Jazz Raycole, Angus Sampson, and Cobie Smulders. The Lincoln Lawyer has already been renewed for a fifth season, the script for which will take its cues from Connelly’s 2023 book, Resurrection Walk.