Mickey Haller

Michael Haller, Jr.
Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller
First appearance	The Lincoln Lawyer (2005)
Created by	Michael Connelly
Portrayed by	Matthew McConaughey
Information
Full name	Michael Haller, Junior
Nickname(s)	Mickey, The Lincoln Lawyer
Gender	Male
Occupation	Defense attorney
Affiliation	none
Spouse(s)	Maggie McPherson (divorced) Lorna Taylor (divorced)
Children	Hayley (daughter)
Relatives	Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch (half-brother)
Nationality	American

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 five published novels, with the most recent published in December 2013.

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

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.

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.