But, as it turns out, Connelly borrowed the idea of a lawyer working out of the back of his car from a real-life person: David Ogden, a Los Angeles attorney who passed away in 2020. While Ogden served as the initial inspiration for Mickey Haller, he was just the start.
Earl BriggsCriminal defense attorney Mickey Haller works in LA County, California, mostly from the back of his black Lincoln Town Car, chauffeured by Earl Briggs.
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Manuel Garcia-RulfoManuel Garcia-Rulfo (Mickey Haller) Some of his biggest films that you might have seen him in are Cake, The Magnificent Seven, the murder mystery, Murder on the Orient Express, Mary, the Netflix film, Sweet Girl, and more. He's also appeared in a variety of television shows, as well.
Baldwin HillsLocation Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, Calif.
Plot. Moderately successful criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller operates around Los Angeles County out of a Lincoln Town Car (hence the title) driven by a former client working off his legal fees.
Mickey Haller doesn't appear in Amazon's Bosch or its spinoff series, Bosch: Legacy, but the role of Bosch in the narrative of The Lincoln Lawyer as it adapts Michael Connelly's The Brass Verdict has been replaced with other characters in the series.
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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.
The Mickey Haller series Haller has appeared in the Bosch novels 9 Dragons and The Night Fire. Additionally, reporter Jack McEvoy has appeared in both the Bosch novel A Darkness More Than Night and the Haller novel The Brass Verdict.
Manuel Garcia-RulfoIn addition, the Manuel Garcia-Rulfo-helmed thriller made the Top 10 in 90 countries. The story follows Mickey Haller (Garcia-Rulfo), an iconoclastic idealist criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles who runs his practice out of the back seat of his Lincoln.