Based on the best-selling novel by Michael Connelly, the film follows lawyer Mickey Haller (Matthew McConaughey), whose office is in the back of his Lincoln Town Car driven by a former client as payment for delinquent legal fees. Haller is hired to defend wealthy real estate mogul Louis Roulet (Ryan Phillippe), who is accused of assaulting a prostitute. Roulet claims the woman is trying to extort him. But as Haller probes deeper, he finds similarities between this case and an old murder case, and all is not as it seems.

Trivia: McConaughey also played a defense attorney in the 1996 film A Time to Kill, alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Sandra Bullock.

See our August 2018 cover story: “The 25 Greatest Legal Movies.”