The Lincoln Lawyer

The capital of Nebraska Lawyer is a 2011 movie direct by Brad Furman. The main Character in this movie, rice paddy Haller is play by Matthew McConaughey who plays a defense lawyers attorney. The part of Louis Roulet is played by Ryan Phillippe. Louis Roulet is a young wealthy realtor who murders prostitutes for his own sick pleasure. The role of red hot Levins, Mick Hallers best friend who is also a detective is played by William H. Macy. The role of Mick Hallers ex wife , Maggie McPherson is played by Marisa Tomei.The Lincoln Lawyer is close Mick Haller a semi successful defense attorney who works come in of his Lincoln town car drove by a former client of his who owes him m integrityy for his services. Haller has a wealthily client who has a fool proof plan to beat the system. When Louis Roulet, a wealthy realtor is a accused of raping a prostitute, Haller is asked to defend him. Roulet claims that he is being set up by this women for m adepty. Haller and his detective Frank Levins take a further look at the evidence and realize that Roulet might plainly be linked to a similar case from a a few(prenominal) years back.Roulet starts to realize that Haller and Levins are connecting the dots that he might be heterogeneous in the former murder case. Roulet pays a unfriendly visit to Hallers station and threats him and his family. The next day Frank Levins is found dead in his home. He was shot by an antique gun, that so happen belonged to Haller. Haller had a representative message on his machine from Levins right before he died which was the tatter to seatting Roulet behind bars for life. The former case that Haller had worked on put a non-guilty man in prison for life.When he discovered that Roulet was to reprobate for the girls murder he wanted to make things right but because of court-ordered issues and him being Roulets lawyer he could not bring this out in that point in time. In court the case gets dismissed because the order attorney put a d ocumented lier on stand to picture against Roulet. Little did Roulet know that Haller had a plan. He had the witness say something about his former case while on the stand, which pointed to Roulet being the maven that killed the girl.As presently as Roulet was released for one crime he was charged for an another(prenominal). They still did not have enough to keep Roulet behind bars though. This is where the message from Frank Levins comes in. Roulet had got a ticket right outside of the girls house who was murdered which was proficient what they needed to charge Roulet. There are a few good issues in this film that can be discussed but the main one I would like to point out is a lawyer mustiness not represent a client if doing so creates a synchronous conflict of interest.That could include the significant risk posed to the attorney representing one client and finding himself materially limited by the lawyers own interest or to those a former client. Haller clearly cannot wo rk on as Roulets lawyer, especially as details come out about his involvement in the murder for which another of the attorneys clients was charged and convicted. His client Roulet, of course, is smart to choose Haller as his attorney.Thats because, scour if his lawyer gets forced off his case, everything Roulet had already told Haller from the initial meeting forrad was subject to the confidence of attorney-client privilege. That privilege prohibits a court or other government tribunal from compelling the revelation of confidential communications surrounded by an attorney and a client if the subject of the communication concerns the professional forgiving relationship between the attorney and the client. The client is the one that can claim or waive the privilege.The privilege does not apply if the client seeks the attorneys services to engage in or assist in a future crime or fraud. So it seems as though Haller cannot work the privilege since he represents Roulet who has told him confidential, incriminating information. In both reality and in the tension-filled movie, it becomes clear that, perhaps, Hallers best escape from his moral and ethical issues whitethorn be by coming to grips that Roulet is guilty and is a horrible human being and that he actually may have at one time represented a innocent man who he had appeal guilty for a crime he did not commit.