Georgina Patel is a researcher, independent consultant, and a former lawyer who practised in family law and criminal law (Crown prosecutions). Her work focuses on psychosocial risk, wellbeing and effective practice in the legal profession. She led Law in Distress, a national study of lawyers’ work-related distress funded by the New Zealand Law Foundation, and is a Research Associate at Auckland University of Technology. She first researched this area while in practice, in her 2016 LLM (Hons) dissertation at the University of Auckland on indirect trauma among criminal lawyers. She is based in Melbourne, and her research has a trans-Tasman focus.