If you have some travel coming up, perhaps a flight of 5, 7, 14 hours - do not kid yourself that you will draft that chapter, review those papers or do anything productive at all. You will sit there, papers virtuously spread out, staring at your neighbour’s tv screen. The whole time.

I know a fair few lawyers on here from the UK. If your practice brings you into contact with the courts, please spare some time to feed into this. No personal details are asked. Deadline is Sunday 26 October. eu.research.net/r/surveylawy...

How our brightest minds get trapped in the City on.ft.com/47ufDbT | opinion

If you need to know what he had done… www.loweringthebar.net/2024/01/i-he...

“Politically motivated attacks on the legal profession are irresponsible and dangerous,” lawyers' representatives said this week. For a unique perspective on the challenges facing judges, I spoke to Professor Sir Ross Cranston, about his new book, Judging. rozenberg.substack.com/p/traducing-...

My article for the Law Institute Journal (LIJ) October 2025 special issue on lawyers’ wellbeing is now available on my Substack. Please have a read and if you can help me grow my audience, I’d be very grateful for a share if you like the article 🙏🏼 open.substack.com/pub/lucindas...

Are we growing tired of social media? Have we remembered that there are better ways to spend time (like reading good books)? #AIEthics By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/a072...

For a book proposal review I just completed, the publisher offered me £150 worth of books in return. I’m now browsing their catalogue, compiling my list, and feeling like the luckiest kid in a candy shop. Doesn’t take much.

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old “The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?” Treasure magazine, 1964 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Dear Sirs, If you are still doing this, stop it. Updated D&I guidance from the Law Society of England and Wales. Thank you.

You can now watch our event discussing #Ethics and #AI and co-hosted with the @middletemple.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOni... With huge thanks to our speakers: Prof Orla Lynskey, Prof Phillip Morgan, Flora Page KC, Dr Raphael Reims and Alison Cottrell. @laws.ucl.ac.uk

I‘m giving a public talk at UCL on Thurs 16 Oct. The title is “Bureaucracy and distrust: the civil service in the constitution” looking at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirJJkc.bsky.social will chair! www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

Don’t miss our live member-only webinar with Niamh Warnock of LawCare on mental health in the legal sector. Learn about key challenges, free support resources, and how to promote wellbeing at work. Book now: www.lifetimelawyers.org.uk/Public/Indus...

LawCare’s new Life in the Law 2025 report highlights the opportunity to build a legal sector that values its people and protects their mental health and wellbeing at work. This is fundamental to the profession’s ability to administer justice and uphold the rule of law lawcare.org.uk/life-in-the-...

Found myself at a yōkai festival in Kyoto, Japan recently. A land with the most fascinating history and culture. Yōkai are believed to be supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore. This one was just pretty damn cool.

Looks interesting. Digitalisation of justice systems and its implications for the legal profession. Helpful livestream option. www.ccbe.eu/actions/even...

We are delighted to share the recording of @stephenmayson.bsky.social UCL lunch hour lecture discussing lawyers and what it means (or should mean) to be acting in a client's best interests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pa5... #ProfessionalEthics #LegalProfession #BestInterests @laws.ucl.ac.uk

Really astounded to learn there have been 308 of these cases so far. 140 involved lawyers and 33 referrals to Bars/regulators. 157 were litigants in person. I had no idea there were so many. The number increases almost daily.

It sounds naive, I'm sure, but looking back over the last 20-odd years of discussions about what is wrong with academia and how or how not to fix it, the idea that scholars produce knowledge (not just jobs, tech, or texts), and that that is an important social good, is largely and strikingly absent.

This is extraordinary. A litigants in person guide that is extremely comprehensive (205 pages). So much time must have gone into compiling this.

It just warms my heart to see EIGHT permanent lectureship opportunities like this. #Psychology postgrads👇 #AcademicSky #PhDChat

@openuniversity.bsky.social thank you for this new addition to your OpenLearn. Lawyers, law academics, law students, anyone working in law 🌏… I think we should all be making use of this, especially as it’s free and clearly a lot of collective effort has gone into it. www.open.edu/openlearncre...

'classic persuasion principles like authority, commitment, and unity can dramatically increase an AI’s likelihood to comply with requests they are designed to refuse...This emergence of “parahuman” tendencies suggests that social scientists have a valuable role to play in understanding AI behavior.'

Fascinating research. Really like the presentation of it too. gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and...

This needs also to be here.

Peer reviewing. When your data only partially support your hypotheses, please go into why you think that might be, in the discussion section. It really helps theory development and future research if you give some ideas about why your results don’t support what you expected.

Scientists consider sharing findings with study participants a “moral duty” but still do it inconsistently, according to new research #academicsky #research

Can we stop talking about psychosocial risks ONLY in relation to mental health and wellbeing at work. These risks and the management of them are also relevant to other organisational outcomes, e.g. ethical decision making and behaviour. 1/5 doi.org/10.1177/2031...

Being open and honest is meant to build trust in science but research suggests it can sometimes have the opposite effect.

This is very true. “Being authentic doesn’t mean more people will like you, it just means you will like you more.” No idea who wrote this but I saw it somewhere and liked it.

The biggest lesson I’m learning after 20+ years of my adult life is that there is joy in learning just for knowledge. Not for money or job progression or any other socially constructed value. The saddest part about this is knowing I’ve wasted 20+ years not knowing this.

One perspective is often missing from research about why children spend so much time on screens: the kids’. So Lenore Skenazy, Zach Rausch, and Jonathan Haidt polled 500 children, who explained how childhood is changing—and how to make it better.

An important issue that doesn’t get enough airtime. Also the need for a trauma-informed legal system that not only cares for people involved but also the judges and lawyers who have to manage trauma often daily as part of their work.

I was in Oslo beginning of July and absolutely amazed it was this light at 10:15pm 🤯 Also lovely view of the canal separating Aker Brygge from Tjuvholmen. Great city, incredibly chilled, super clean ❤️

This is absolutely brilliant from @citystgeorges.bsky.social law school They’ve developed a video game resource which walks law students through essay writing 🙌 And it’s open to everyone to use 👏 👉 tldr.legal/resource/lea...

Love this resource page. Talks about #thematicanalysis by @ginnybraun.bsky.social and @vicclarke.bsky.social www.thematicanalysis.net/talks-about-...

It surprises me when I hear quite nasty comments about other people’s research. All research is important, regardless of whether you like it or agree with it. That someone has spent often years of their life discovering something new is remarkable. Critique it, 100%, but there’s a place for kindness

Never pass up an opportunity to write. Unpaid effort? The value far exceeds what can be counted. I’m preparing to write a book chapter and learning so much more than before. New ideas, arguments, thought positions. To write is to learn, not merely to communicate what you already know.

This has won my reading for the day... 🧵 “What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. ...

I wrote something about how too much of a competitive attitude to everything can make you lose sight of who you are, your values, and why you became a lawyer in the first place. Some existential reflections and lessons I’m finally learning. lucindasoon.substack.com/p/its-not-a-...

Great article and congratulations @richardmoorhead.bsky.social on your new role. www.monash.edu/law/news-and...

If you’ll be heading to #IBAToronto in Nov, a shout out to this full day event at the University of Toronto. For academic and legal-practice focused perspectives on the changing international legal order, AI and legal education, and preparing lawyers for the changing world. @ibanews.bsky.social

I'm giving a public lecture, “Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution” on Thursday 16 October 2025, 6-7pm. This is part of UCL's Current Legal Problems lecture series. More details here: lnkd.in/e2AJMzbW

#IOPsych #OHP #wellbeing researchers—some Friday reading. New measure for resources and demands at work published yesterday. Based on JD-R, developed in Germany, validated against COPSOQ3 doi.org/10.1026/0932...

*New to the research database* – could a self-reliance belief in being able to manage symptoms of poor mental health be a barrier to lawyers seeking appropriate help and support?

LawCare and researchers at @lawatleeds.bsky.social have created a reverse mentoring toolkit to help law firms and legal organisations become more inclusive, supportive, and fairer places to work.

🚨 UK judges issue stark warning: Lawyers who submit fake AI-generated cases in court could face criminal charges. Generative tools like ChatGPT aren’t reliable for legal research. Transparency, verification & oversight are now essential. #LegalTech #AI #Justice www.ibanet.org//Technology-...

What are the major challenges facing the legal profession today? Sara Carnegie from @ibanews.bsky.social on mental health, gender equality, the impact of artificial intelligence, expectations of new generations, and what this all means for the future of the legal profession.