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Lucinda Soon is a solicitor of England and Wales and an organisational psychologist specialising in legal ethics, professional responsibility, and lawyer and judicial wellbeing. She works across academia and legal practice. In practice, Lucinda works with legal policymakers, professional stakeholder organisations, and law firms on a variety of research and advisory projects, bringing together over a decade of experience in professional ethics and regulation with robust empirical methods and insights from psychology to develop ethical and healthy workplaces in law. Lucinda’s academic work focuses on undertaking empirical research on lawyers' ethics, the legal profession, and lawyer/judicial wellbeing, combining perspectives from law, psychology, sociology, and business management. She is a doctoral researcher at Birkbeck, University of London, and lectures at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, where she leads the module on Psychology for Legal Practitioners on the MSc Law and Professional Practice programme. Lucinda holds several board and committee roles in the UK and internationally. She is a trustee for LawCare, the mental health and wellbeing charity for the UK legal profession; co-chair for the IBA Professional Wellbeing Commission; an officer of the IBA Academic and Professional Development Committee; and co-convenor for the Society of Legal Scholars' Practice, Profession and Ethics section.