Netflix is bringing Mickey Haller back, and he’ll need all the tricks in his playbook to get out of his newest mess
Thriller shows that tell one long story over the course of a season are all the rage in our very crowded streaming landscape, but a few of these shows stand out among the others — like Reacher, Squid Game, and the one we’re here to talk about, The Lincoln Lawyer. The Lincoln Lawyer, which is based on a series of novels by Michael Connelly about the high-rolling attorney Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), has been a massive hit since the moment Season 1 dropped, and now we’re already barreling ahead toward the upcoming Season 4.
Given that pretty intense cliffhanger that came at the end of Season 3, in which Mickey was framed for murder, it’s understandable if fans of The Lincoln Lawyer are getting antsy as they wait to see what happens to Mickey next. Unfortunately, you’ve got a while longer to wait, but at least we have a pretty solid idea of what Season 4’s premise will be. So let’s dive into everything we know so far about what to expect from the upcoming season of The Lincoln Lawyer.
The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 latest news
In early May, Deadline revealed that a quartet of guest stars have been cast in Season 4, including Emmanuelle Chriqui and Jason O’Mara. Details on their characters are below in the cast section.
The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 release date prediction
Netflix hasn’t said anything about when we can expect to see Season 4 of The Lincoln Lawyer — but it was not included on the list of shows and movies at the end of the streamer’s 2025 hype reel. It’s very likely you’ll have to wait until 2026 for the return of The Lincoln Lawyer, which makes sense since Season 3 was released in October 2024, but since filming on Season 4 started in February 2025, there’s a chance it could come out in late 2025.
What will The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 be about?
Warning: Spoilers for the Season 3 finale of The Lincoln Lawyer follow.
If you’re up to date on The Lincoln Lawyer series — meaning you’ve watched through the end of Season 3 — then you should already have a pretty solid idea of what the focus will be in Season 4. The last time we saw hotshot attorney Mickey Haller, he was pulled over by police for a missing license plate while driving one of his titular Lincolns. The cop sees something dripping form the back of the car, opens the trunk, and finds the corpse of a con man named Sam Scales that Mickey had worked with several times in the past. Somebody is framing Mickey for murder.
Fortunately, Mickey’s ex-wife/associate Lorna Crane (Becki Newton) just passed the bar, but don’t think Mickey’s going to take a step back even while he’s being framed for murder. Season 4 will be based on the novel The Law of Innocence, and in the book, Mickey defends himself.
“Well, the biggest cliffhanger of all is: ‘What is going to happen to Mickey?’ And that one certainly plays out across the whole season in the form of his trial,” co-showrunner Ted Humphrey told Tudum. “But in the first episode you’ll understand at least the broad strokes of what specifically has happened and what charges — and adversaries — Mickey is facing. This is going to be the biggest and most personal challenge Mickey has ever faced, and also the biggest roller coaster we’ve yet taken our audience on.”
So this case won’t be a quick one — it’ll take all of Season 4 for Mickey to get himself out of this one.
Oddly enough, the COVID-19 pandemic plays a role in the book, which takes place in early 2020 right as that whole thing was getting started. Whether that aspect of the story will be kept is unknown.
The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 cast
Jazz Raycole, Angus Sampson, Becki Newton, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, The Lincoln Lawyer
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The core cast of Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (Mickey), Becki Newton (Lorna), Jazz Raycole (Izzy), and Angus Sampson (Cisco) will all be returning, naturally, and Neve Campbell, as Mickey’s ex-wife Maggie, will once again serve as a series regular after appearing in only a handful of episodes in Seasons 2 and 3.
Notably absent from the announced list of returning cast members is Yaya DaCosta, who plays the slick prosecutor Angela Freeman, who Mickey started dating in Season 3. Freeman was a key character in Seasons 2 and 3, so it would be a little strange if she just disappeared. Her absence from the renewal announcement doesn’t necessarily mean she’s being left out of Season 4 entirely — it would make sense for her, as a prosecutor, to get some distance from Mickey while he’s being credibly accused of murder.
New to this season is Sasha Alexander, who is joining the cast as an FBI agent. In early May 2025, several new guest actors were also announced for Season 4 of The Lincoln Lawyer, including TV veterans Emmanuelle Chriqui (Entourage) and Jason O’Mara (Terra Nova). O’Mara will play Jack Gilroy, the new boyfriend of Mickey’s ex-wife Maggie, and Chriqui will appear as Jeanine Ferrigno, the girlfriend of a gangster who’s somehow involved in Mickey’s case. The series is also adding Javon Johnson as Carter Gates, someone else accused of a murder they probably didn’t commit — this character is original to the show, so they might be a wild card. Meanwhile, renowned chef Nancy Silverton will make a cameo appearance on the show as herself.
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Mickey Haller
Becki Newton as Lorna Crane
Jazz Raycole as Izzy Letts
Angus Sampson as Cisco Wojciechowski
Elliot Gould as Legal Siegal
Krista Warner as Hayley Haller
Neve Campbell as Maggie McPherson
Sasha Alexander as FBI agent Dawn Ruth
Jason O’Mara as Jack Gilroy
Emmanuelle Chriqui as Jeanine Ferrigno
Javon Johnson as Carter Gates
Where to watch The Lincoln Lawyer
The first three seasons of The Lincoln Lawyer are available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
