Legal Wellbeing

Neurodivergence

Lexxic’s legal-sector work points to a training gap before lawyers even enter practice

Lexxic estimates that more than 45,000 neurodivergent people work across the UK legal sector and cites a 2024 Neurodiversikey survey in which 66% of respondents felt legal education and training was not neuro-inclusive.

BY WELLBEING DESK · MAY 13, 2026 · 1 MIN READ

Lexxic estimates that more than 45,000 neurodivergent people work across the UK legal sector and cites a 2024 Neurodiversikey survey in which 66% of respondents felt legal education and training was not neuro-inclusive. The implication for law firms is that onboarding, supervision and early-career development may need to compensate for a pipeline that has already made many neurodivergent lawyers work harder to access the same learning environment.

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