Lincoln
Lawyer
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Margaret
McPherson - Haller's ex-wife, prosecuting attorney
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Louis
Ross Roulet - the accused
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Ted
Minton - prosecutor in Roulet's case
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Jesus
Menendez - former client of Haller
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Dwayne
Corliss - jailhouse snitch
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Reggie
Campo - alleged victim of Roulet
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Martha
Renteria - Menendez's alleged murder victim
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Raul
Levin - Haller's investigator and colleague in Roulet's case
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Lorna
Taylor - Haller's manager and ex-wife
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Cecil
C. Dobbs - the Roulet family Lawyer
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Mary
Windsor - Louis Roulet's mother
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Detective
Howard Kurlen - the lead detective on the Jesus Menendez case
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Detectives
Lankford and Sobel - two cops who investigate Levin's murder
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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. The elder Michael Haller was a famous defense attorney in the Los Angeles
area. Haller's mother was born in Mexico, 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.
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 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. He 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.
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