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Only 36% of surveyed legal professionals, including lawyers, who are ages 18 to 34 said work had a positive effect on mental health. The percentage increased to 43% for those ages 35 to 44, 50% for those ages 45 to 54, and 62% for those ages 55 and older.

The impact of poor well-being is far reaching, according to the study, The State of Wellbeing in Law 2024. Nearly 19% of work time is affected by poor mental health, resulting in an average well-being loss of more than $33 million per firm.

The study is based on responses from 4,448 legal professionals in nine firms in the United States and the United Kingdom. The firms, identified as midsize in the study, had head counts ranging from 600 to 2,400.

Other survey findings:

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On this day in 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

In a speech in Hawaii in 1987, commemorating the bicentennial celebration of the US Constitution, Justice Marshall spoke of his rejection of the view espoused by his more conservative colleagues that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the founders' original understanding and intent:

Lawyers drafting online terms of use/service and privacy policies are well-advised to establish a record that allows the client to demonstrate the existence of such terms and the date they were in effect. Such a record will prove quite handy in future litigation. See, eg, Kinney v. YouTube, LLC (Cal. Ct. App. 2018) (YouTube forced to rely on sworn testimony of engineer responsible for posting YouTube terms of service to prove that plaintiff click-accepted a version of the YouTube terms that included a synthetic one-year statute of limitations).