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Lucinda Soon is a legal director at Kingsley Napley LLP specialising in professional ethics and legal services regulation. She has over a decade of experience advising law firms on their regulatory obligations and has a particular interest in matters relating to workplace culture and well-being. Lucinda is also a doctoral researcher in organisational psychology at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research focuses on the structural and behavioural risk factors that impact lawyers’ well-being and the steps that firms can take to proactively manage these risks. Her research publications include a substantial systematic review of well-being in the legal profession; the first review of its kind to synthesise the global literature on lawyers’ well-being over the past 50 years. Lucinda is a practising solicitor of England and Wales. She holds a Masters in psychology and is a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society. She is also a trustee for LawCare, the mental well-being charity for the UK legal profession, and a Commissioner for the IBA Professional Wellbeing Commission.