
A substantial subset of attorneys enter the legal profession with psychological adaptations shaped by early exposure to unpredictable, emotionally confusing, or volatile family systems. These individuals often develop hypervigilance—an attentional posture characterized by continuous environmental scanning for threat—as a means of psychological survival. Legal education and law practice, which reward anticipatory cognition, adversarial forecasting, and error detection, can inadvertently reinforce and solidify this trauma-adapted orientation. While professionally advantageous, this consolidation of hypervigilance often carries significant



