I started as a lawyer. Top-tier firm in Australia, employment law. Then Brussels, working across a global network.
But I kept finding myself more interested in a different part of the picture — how people respond to pressure, change, and uncertainty. That pulled me toward a Doctorate in Psychology and years of clinical work across private practice and hospital settings.
When I turned my attention back to the legal profession, I kept seeing the same gap.
The profession was changing fast. But most lawyers were still trying to navigate it with older models of development — pushing harder, learning more, doing more — without stopping to ask whether any of it was actually working. The impact wasn't showing up as a skills problem. It was showing up as a direction problem. A clarity problem. A quiet, persistent sense that the old playbook no longer fits and no one is helping you write a new one.
Most things built for lawyers address the information side of that. Few address the human side — what it actually takes to adapt when the ground is shifting and the path isn't yet clear.
That's the gap Modern Lawyer Collective was built to close. The signal, and the stuff that determines whether you do anything with it.
Dr Bianca Kingdon
LLB, D.Psych