THE LINCOLN LAWYER Spinoff Series Starring Cobie Smulders In Fast-Track Development at Netflix

As The Lincoln Lawyer is coming to a close, the franchise creators are eying an expansion at Netflix with a spinoff series headlined by Cobie Smulders, reprising her role as Mickey Haller’s half-sister Artemisia “Emi” Finch.

The script is being written by The Lincoln Lawyer executive producers Ted Humphrey, Dailyn Rodriguez and Matthew J. Lieberman, with A+E Studios producing.

Chatter about an Emi spinoff started even before Netflix announced in May that Season 5 of The Lincoln Lawyer will be its last. Deadline reports that Humphrey, Rodriguez and Lieberman spent some time honing in the concept and recently pitched it to Netflix.

According to sources, it was well received, with the streamer buying the project in the room and commissioning a script for a quick turnaround.

Emi was introduced at the end of Season 4, with Smulders promoted to a series regular for Season 5.

In the upcoming fifth season, Mickey Haller’s (Rulfo) world is upended when the half-sister he never knew existed, Emi (Smulders), comes to him with a plea to help free a wrongfully convicted woman, a case he takes on, determined to set right an enormous miscarriage of justice.

Emi is an original character who is not in Michael Connelly’s books, on which The Lincoln Lawyer is based. She fills a void in Mickey’s family dynamic caused at least in part by his half-brother Harry Bosch not being in the picture due to the rights to the character being owned by Amazon.

With Mickey’s half-brother having headlined his own series on Prime Video, it is only fitting for his sister to do the same on Netflix.

I’m going to miss The Lincoln Lawyer, but I love Cobie Smulders, and this sounds like a promising premise. The fifth and final season of The Lincoln Lawyer is set to return in 2027.