Netflix's hit legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer returned for its third season on October 21, 2024, bringing defense attorney Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) and his dedicated law office back to our screens. The show based on Michael Connelly's mystery-thriller book series has become an underrated cult-loved series over the years for its engrossing cases and nuanced characters (not to mention the fashion inspiration Lorna provides).
Now that season 3's mystery is all wrapped up—and the show's biggest cliffhanger so far has been revealed—fans are clamoring for any news of Mickey and the team's future. Read on for everything we know about The Lincoln Lawyer season 4 so far.
Has 'The Lincoln Lawyer' been renewed for season 4?
Yes! On January 22, 2025, Netflix confirmed that The Lincoln Lawyer will return for a fourth season, to the delight of the legal drama's dedicated fanbase. According to the announcement, filming will begin on the 10-episode season this February.
After season 3 arrived on Netflix in October 2024, co-showrunner Ted Humphrey told TV Insider that the streaming giant had been waiting for viewer numbers to see whether to invest in a fourth season.
"We’re in the hands of the audience," he said. "We’re quietly optimistic about it, but obviously, with Netflix, it always depends on how the current season goes. And so I would say to our fans and viewers of the show, if you want a fourth season, which we very much want to bring you a fourth season, then by all means watch and tell your friends."
When will 'The Lincoln Lawyer' season 4 come out?
The Lincoln Lawyer is one of Netflix's few series that follows a traditional yearly release schedule, compared to series with multi-year hiatuses like Bridgerton, Wednesday, and Stranger Things. Season 3 arrived later than usual, in fall rather than late spring/early summer, after filming took place from January to June 2024.
Luckily for fans, season 4 is right on schedule! Netflix announced that filming began in L.A. on February 18, 2025. Based on season 3's timeline, season 4 could return in November or December 2025.
Who in the 'The Lincoln Lawyer' cast will return for season 4?
All of the series' beloved main cast, including Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (Mickey Haller), Becki Newton (Lorna), Angus Sampson (Cisco), and Jazz Raycole (Izzy), will return for season 4. Upon its renewal, Netflix confirmed that Neve Campbell (Maggie McPherson) would return "for all episodes of the new season," after the Scream star only held a supporting role in seasons 2 and 3.
The streamer has yet to confirm whether other fan-favorite actors will reprise their roles, including Elliott Gould (David “Legal” Siegel) and Krista Warner (Hayley). Meanwhile, TVLine has reported that Yaya DaCosta is not expected to reprise her role of Andrea Freeman, since the character does not appear in season 4's source novel The Law of Innocence.
While characters from previous seasons have been known to pop up in later episodes, it's unknown whether Devon Graye who plays Julian La Cosse, as well as Wolé Parks who plays his partner David, would ever be back after riding off into the sunset in the season 3 finale.
Which new cast members are joining 'The Lincoln Lawyer' season 4?
We now know who'll play the prosecutor trying to keep Mickey behind bars. Netflix announced Constance Zimmer joined the series for a 10-episode guest arc. The Emmy nominee and UnREAL alum will play Dana Berg, "a colleague of Maggie’s from her days in the L.A. district attorney’s office," per Tudum.
She's been described as, "Dana, a relentless prosecutor who will let nothing stand in the way of a guilty verdict, has a single-mindedness that earned her the nickname 'Death Row Dana.' A fierce and ruthless adversary who bends the rules to her advantage, she’s the last person Mickey wants to go up against in what will be the trial of his life."
What would 'The Lincoln Lawyer' season 4 be about?
Spoilers for the The Lincoln Lawyer season 3 finale ahead. Each season of The Lincoln Lawyer is based on one of Michael Connelly's novels, with season 3 following The Gods of Guilt as Mickey balances co-parenting his daughter Hayley with his ever-complicated career. By the end of the season, Mickey finds closure about the death of his former client and friend Glory Days (previously played by Fiona Rene), as he successfully defends Julian La Cosse, who was wrongfully accused of her murder. He even gets true justice for her death, helping to take down the DEA conspiracy that led to her murder. However, it wouldn't be a legal drama without a season-ending cliffhanger, and Mickey gets the rug pulled from under him when the bloody corpse of con man Sam Scales (Christopher Thornton) is found in his Lincoln's trunk.
In an interview with Variety, the series' showrunners Dailyn Rodriguez and Ted Humphrey confirmed that season 4 will adapt the novel The Law of Innocence, which focuses on Mickey being accused of Scales’ murder. Humphrey says of the upcoming installment, "The only way to up the stakes on this season was to make Mickey the client, which clearly was the idea Michael had in the books as well."
In a Tudum interview from season 4's set, co-showrunner Ted Humphrey hinted at the new season's arc. "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. 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," he revealed. "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. And of course, our other characters will be dealing not only with Mickey’s case but with a slew of challenges they’re facing as well.”
Humphrey added, "All the advice he’s given clients over the years, now he has to give himself—and he realizes how hollow some of it sounds when you’re the one it’s bouncing off of. He’s got to deal with how this impacts not just him but also his family and loved ones, not to mention his business! But don’t worry—he’s going to have help from some of the people our audience loves the most, as well as some familiar faces who will be cropping up along the way—some helpfully…some perhaps not so helpfully, and a few new ones as well."
