"There is no client as scary as an innocent man."
Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn't recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. Being a defense attorney, he normally fights for people who are guilty and he is trying to keep out of prison. In most cases, Mickey is able to keep his clients out, following in the footsteps of his deceased father.
Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers - they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, but instead a game of negotiation and manipulation.
As the book reaches the third chapter, Mickey is introduced to Louis Roulet, a Beverly Hills real estate agent arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar. Rouley chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a defense attorney's dream, what they call a franchise case. Mickey for once believes that he is defending a client that could in fact be innocent, and that scares the crap out of him.
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