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Lucinda is a regulatory lawyer, research psychologist, and socio-legal academic. A solicitor of England and Wales since 2009, she has spent the past two decades advising professional bodies and regulators on ethical standards and policy development, while advising lawyers and law firms on ethics compliance and risk management.   Lucinda now works across research, teaching, and consulting, integrating law and the social sciences to address challenges impacting professional ethics and wellbeing in legal practice and the judiciary.   She is a doctoral researcher at Birkbeck Business School, and teaches at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.   Alongside her academic research and teaching, she partners with professional bodies, regulators, and international institutions to develop evidence-based policies, standards and guidance, integrating legal policy principles with rigorous empirical research and evidence. She is also a regular speaker at academic and professional conferences.   Lucinda sits on several boards and committees in the UK and internationally, as a Trustee for LawCare, the mental health charity for the UK legal profession; Co-Chair for the International Bar Association (IBA) Professional Wellbeing Commission; Committee Member of the IBA Bar Issues Commission (BIC) Regulation Committee; and Co-Convenor for the Society of Legal Scholars’ Practice, Profession and Ethics section.