{"id":3437,"date":"2026-01-19T15:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=3437"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:36:34","slug":"lincoln-lawyer-vs-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=3437","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Lawyer vs. AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Moyer reviews the latest book in the Lincoln Lawyer series and finds that some things are different this time around.<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer<\/p>\n

THE PROVING GROUND. By Michael Connelly. Little, Brown. 384 pages, $32.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s wrong with this picture?<\/p>\n

It certainly isn\u2019t the writing. Michael Connelly has once again fashioned a spot-on courtroom drama, featuring Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller\u2019s ingenious strategies, devious but overwhelmed opposition lawyers, a judge who keeps a tight rein on the shifty Haller, discredited witnesses, emotional testimonies and surprise reveals. The Lincoln Lawyer is at his best.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something amiss, however \u2014 Haller isn\u2019t the quite the Lincoln Lawyer readers have come to know and love.<\/p>\n

He has moved out of his fancy offices, sold all his Lincolns (except one), and drives a sedan. He pulls the Lincoln out only when he’s already into the case. Most shocking of all is the reversal in the courtroom. Haller isn\u2019t the defense lawyer \u2014 he\u2019s the plaintiff\u2019s attorney. The plaintiff here is a woman whose daughter was killed by a boy at the urging of a chatbot \u2014 or so Haller must prove. He has taken on an artificial intelligence giant, suing them not just for money, but for an admission of responsibility and an apology as well. The dynamic is familiar here \u2014 a lawyer and client facing a large, rich corporation.<\/p>\n

In exposing the process that led to the girl\u2019s death, Connelly spends as much time explaining the lack of ethics, guardrails and morality as he does establishing the courtroom environment. The\u00a0implications are greater than just the death of one person, no matter how tragic that may be. Connelly illustrates in detail just how dangerous unlimited AI is to society. Haller, of course, takes the Goliath of a corporation down, and does it with the elan he has always shown.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, there\u2019s a longing for Mickey to have conducted the case like he has done before \u2014 from the backseat of a Lincoln.<\/p>\n

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