Lucinda is a Visiting Lecturer at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. Within the Professional Law Institute, Lucinda is the Module Lead for Psychology for Legal Practitioners on the MSc Law & Professional Practice programme.

A solicitor of England and Wales since 2009, Lucinda specialises in legal ethics and regulation. She has more than a decade of experience advising lawyers and law firms on regulatory risk and compliance, including advising professional bodies and regulators on ethical standards and policy development.

Lucinda is also a Member of the British Psychological Society (GMBPsS), having received her MSc in Psychology with distinction from the University of East London in 2019.

Lucinda’s doctoral research in organisational psychology at the Faculty of Business and Law at Birkbeck, University of London, focuses on workplace culture and wellbeing in the legal profession. Her published work includes a systematic review of lawyers’ wellbeing, the first review of its kind to map and synthesise the global literature on this topic over the past 50 years.

Lucinda also serves as a Trustee for LawCare, the mental health and wellbeing charity for the UK legal profession, and a Commissioner for the International Bar Association (IBA) Professional Wellbeing Commission. 

Research interests

• Lawyers’ ethics and workplace behaviour
• Health and wellbeing in legal practice

Selected publications

• Soon, L., McDowall, A., & Teoh, K. R. H. (2023). Towards a context-specific approach to understanding lawyers’ well-being: a synthesis review and future research agenda. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 31(3), 550–573. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2023.2206879

• Soon, L., Walsh, J. J., McDowall, A., & Teoh, K. R. H. (2021). The effects of basic psychological needs satisfaction and mindfulness on solicitors’ well-being. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 29(2), 143–158. https://doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2021.2020657

Teaching

MSc in Law & Professional Practice:

• Psychology for Legal Practitioners